Word: timber
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...Mexico; and sardines and anchovies in the Pacific. The United Nations and World Bank sponsored the Tropical Forestry Action Plan to sustain forests, but instead the plan spurred further deforestation. When asked by an environmentalist what he meant by sustainable, a World Bank agronomist replied, "Fifty years of timber production." Even the rubber tappers of Brazil's Amazon rain forest, who along with their martyred leader, Chico Mendes, became symbols of the sustainable use of tropical forests, overexploit their ecosystem. Writing in the journal BioScience, John Browder notes that in search of food and sources of cash, these seringueiros...
...King. A former TV reporter and camera operator in Alexandria, Minnesota, admitted to furnishing alcohol to a minor to illustrate a story on teen drinking. NBC itself went back on air with another admission of error, this time for using footage of fish supposedly killed during clear-cutting of timber on government land. In reality, one shot depicted a different forest while another showed fish that were not dead, only stunned by researchers for testing. In the most dramatic act of contrition, NBC News president Michael Gartner acknowledged that the GM controversy would not die and abruptly resigned last week...
...grazing lands. With the blessing of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, the Interior chief plans to revitalize the National Park Service and increase the protection of endangered species. But his most politically complex mission is to scale back once sacred subsidies for those who use federal lands: miners, the timber industry, and cattle and sheep ranchers...
...Also likely to come under scrutiny are below-cost timber sales at Babbitt's sister agency, the Agriculture Department. The government is currently losing money on logging operations in more than half of its 155 national forests. The U.S. spends money to build roads and make the timber accessible but then often sells it cheap. Over the past 14 years, the U.S. has subsidized logging companies to the tune of $8.5 billion, according to Robert Wolf, a forestry economist...
Western diplomats believed that the process would wither the Khmer Rouge's power. What they failed to predict was the communists' ability to finance their own arms purchases from the sale of timber and gems in areas they control along the border with Thailand, which with Thai assistance they have savagely pillaged at great cost to the environment. The U.N. Security Council has imposed sanctions on the Khmer Rouge, to little avail...