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...have clashed as members of the so-called God Squad, a committee of officials with the power to grant exceptions to the Endangered Species Act. Last month, over Reilly's protests, a committee majority gave loggers the go-ahead to cut down 688 hectares (1,700 acres) of ancient forest in the Pacific Northwest that is home to the threatened northern spotted...
...effort to counter criticism on the biodiversity issue, Bush announced last week that the U.S. would contribute $150 million to programs that help developing countries preserve their forests. But the initiative rang hollow, given the Administration's encouragement of logging in ancient U.S. forests. "It's complete hypocrisy," said Sierra Club legislative director David Gardiner, who called the forest-aid package "part of the President's campaign to be re-elected and to cover up his disastrous environmental record...
...were part of an international plot to thwart the country's development. All that was supposed to change with the March 1990 inauguration of Fernando Collor de Mello, Brazil's first President with a green heart. Collor named Jose Lutzenberger, one of the world's foremost champions of rain-forest preservation, head of a new environment secretariat. The President also vowed to reverse decades of untrammeled development that destroyed 415,000 sq km (160,000 sq. mi.) -- an area the size of Iraq -- of the Amazon rain forest. He blew up airstrips used by gold miners who had invaded Yanomami...
Even the slowdown in Amazon destruction, critics say, owes less to Collor's policies than to a sagging economy. Says Willem Groenefeld, who runs an environmental institute in the Amazonian state of Rondonia: "Nobody has any money to cut the forest down...
...Party. "What does sustainable development mean in the Amazon? The big polluters are hiding behind these two words." In fact, a wood-pulp producer in the Amazonian state of Para has described as "sustainable development" a plan to clear-cut 5,000 hectares (12,000 acres) of virgin tropical forest and replant the area with eucalyptus trees...