Can sustainable management help save tropical forests?
- Regulated timber cutting is the main strategy
- Uncontrollable logging would create more problems for trees being cut down
- Economic options are not beneficial to trees
- Logging companies choose to cut trees as fast as they can because leaving them to grow would not guarantee more money
- In Bolivia, the effects of over-logging was mild
- Sustainable management does not always mean good for earth
- Solutions: To give low interest to logging companies to regenerate trees and promote preservation for areas surrounding timber areas
- National agricultural policies, road development and colonization can each pose a far greater danger to tropical forests than unsustainable logging.
We need more innovative models of tropical forest management, based on locally appropriate paradigms and application, in which the concept of sustainability is set in the broader context of managing tropical production forests. Although a viable network of protected areas is necessary for conserving some tropical forests and their biodiversity, it is surely insufficient. Issues of cost and practicality and the pressures of competing interests and land uses mean that the network can never be extensive enough to encompass all or even most of the biodiversity that needs protecting. Small geographic ranges and limited dispersal mean that populations isolated in reserves will be vulnerable to extinction, from chance events, let alone from unlawful hunting and extraction. This means that that the battle to conserve most tropical diversity will be won or lost in managed forests being used to produce timber and other goods. Even logged forest, managed appropriately, can provide habitat for otherwise threatened species
So what?
- It's important to know about sustainable management on forests.
What if?
- we continued logging?
Says who?
- Richard E. Rice, Raymond E. Gullision and John W. Reid and Scientific American.
What does this remind me of?
- This reminds me of Endangered species.
- Uncontrollable logging would create more problems for trees being cut down
- Economic options are not beneficial to trees
- Logging companies choose to cut trees as fast as they can because leaving them to grow would not guarantee more money
- In Bolivia, the effects of over-logging was mild
- Sustainable management does not always mean good for earth
- Solutions: To give low interest to logging companies to regenerate trees and promote preservation for areas surrounding timber areas
- National agricultural policies, road development and colonization can each pose a far greater danger to tropical forests than unsustainable logging.
We need more innovative models of tropical forest management, based on locally appropriate paradigms and application, in which the concept of sustainability is set in the broader context of managing tropical production forests. Although a viable network of protected areas is necessary for conserving some tropical forests and their biodiversity, it is surely insufficient. Issues of cost and practicality and the pressures of competing interests and land uses mean that the network can never be extensive enough to encompass all or even most of the biodiversity that needs protecting. Small geographic ranges and limited dispersal mean that populations isolated in reserves will be vulnerable to extinction, from chance events, let alone from unlawful hunting and extraction. This means that that the battle to conserve most tropical diversity will be won or lost in managed forests being used to produce timber and other goods. Even logged forest, managed appropriately, can provide habitat for otherwise threatened species
So what?
- It's important to know about sustainable management on forests.
What if?
- we continued logging?
Says who?
- Richard E. Rice, Raymond E. Gullision and John W. Reid and Scientific American.
What does this remind me of?
- This reminds me of Endangered species.