Study hopeful for world's forests
14th Nov 2006, 02:41 GMT
When the technique was applied to data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Global Forest Assessment report, the researchers found that forest stocks had actually expanded over the past 15 years in 22 of the world’s 50 most forested nations. But there was a risk that a misleading picture was being created by rich nations importing raw timber or wood-based products from poorer nations, rather than destroying their own woodlands. “This is a serious problem,” Professor Kauppi said. “It is called ‘leakage’ or ‘exporting ecological impacts’ and it exists, unfortunately.” It looks like the only way to end deforestation is to end global inequality. Summary By Szamko
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