EXCHANGE MORNING POST : Business, Economics, Education, Entrepreneurs,
Environment, Science and Technology
April 29, 2008
http://www.exchangemagazine.com/morningpost/2008/week18/Tuesday/042809.html
Asia’s Rainforests Vanishing As Timber, Food Demand Surge: Experts.
“Asia’s rainforests are being rapidly destroyed,
a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in
booming China and India, and record food, energy
and commodity prices, forest experts warn.
The loss of these biodiversity hot spots, much of
it driven by the illegal timber trade and the
growth of oil palm, biofuel and rubber
plantations, is worsening global warming, species
loss and poverty, they said…at the Asia-Pacific
Forestry Week conference in Hanoi. …