tim
Established Member
Did anyone else see the report about SE Asian timber stocks last night on the 10pm BBC News?
Pretty shocking would be an understatement.
Basically, because of China's massive expansion plans, it is sourcing timber by whatever means possible. Consequently there is staggering amounts of illegal logging occurring in Indonesia with corruption going right to the top.
Net result the stats are absolutely horrifying.
Aside from the difficult to comprehend (and therefore IMHO meaningless) figure showing that the amount of forest cleared in Indonesia each year is the size of switzerland, the chinese logging consumption equates to one stolen log being processed every minute. These are logs that are 6-8ft diameter c 100 years old.
If that wasn't bad enough - what that extrapolates to is that at this rate, there will be no forest left in Indonesia within 5 years. Not 50 or 500 or next century but 5 years.
We are screwing it up people and I don't know what we/ I can do about it.
Tim
Too depressed to carry on typing
Pretty shocking would be an understatement.
Basically, because of China's massive expansion plans, it is sourcing timber by whatever means possible. Consequently there is staggering amounts of illegal logging occurring in Indonesia with corruption going right to the top.
Net result the stats are absolutely horrifying.
Aside from the difficult to comprehend (and therefore IMHO meaningless) figure showing that the amount of forest cleared in Indonesia each year is the size of switzerland, the chinese logging consumption equates to one stolen log being processed every minute. These are logs that are 6-8ft diameter c 100 years old.
If that wasn't bad enough - what that extrapolates to is that at this rate, there will be no forest left in Indonesia within 5 years. Not 50 or 500 or next century but 5 years.
We are screwing it up people and I don't know what we/ I can do about it.
Tim
Too depressed to carry on typing