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That may soon change. The governments of Guyana and Suriname have begun to open huge tracts of forests for logging by timber and trading companies from Korea, Indonesia and Malaysia. Conservationists around the world are horrified at the prospect, aware that in southern Asia the loggers have ravaged forests, leaving a legacy of eroded hills, silt-choked rivers and barren fields. If such exploitation cannot be prevented in sparsely populated countries like Guyana and Suriname, the environmentalists ask, can deforestation be stopped anywhere? For thousands of years, deforestation has presaged the fall of civilizations. Now, for the first time, humanity...
...loaders to automatic weapons left behind during the war. Alan Rabinowitz, the organizer of the WCS team, says that the area still has remarkable diversity but that all species have been radically reduced by hunting. Laotian trees are also under threat, as deforested neighboring countries look covetously at Laos' timber...
...Pacific's holdings -- on which fast-growing second- and third-generation redwoods are reaching market size. But it is willing, perhaps eager, to sell Headwaters and a logged-over 1,500-acre buffer zone for something more than $500 million, the Forest Service estimate of the value of the timber. Hamburg thinks the figure % is far too high...
...TIMBER CUTTERS...
...enthusiasts believe that assets like oil, timber and an industrious, literate population are the makings of another Asian miracle. Harder heads are skeptical, noting that the nation consolidated by Ho Chi Minh's heirs after the 1975 fall of Saigon is poverty-stricken and still at least partly under the thumb of ancient Marxists. Per capita income remains at $200 a year, one of the poorest in the world. Says Julian Reid, a director of Jardine Fleming Securities in Hong Kong: "In the medium to long term, Vietnam is extremely exciting. The short term is full of frustrations...