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Mar 24, 2012 Letters

 

 

DEAR EDITOR,
I read the recent News item about logging in Guyana.  It was a bit alarming to learn that “prime commercial timbers are being overcut by 30 times the natural rate of regeneration” and surprising to learn of the involvement of “an increasing number of Chinese national log traders”.”
In the Far East (their part of the world) recent severe flooding caused widespread disruption to daily life, disaster in some places. They must be aware of this, perhaps witnessed it for themselves.  Recent media reports attribute these floods to indiscriminate and illegal logging.
The internet is full of information about ‘Biodiversity, Deforestation and Habitats’.  In one book – ‘Fruit Trees and Plants on Amazonian Life’ – it is stated that “The Amazon could shrink to one-third of its present size in 65 years). Perhaps cause for concern.
In another article, it is stated that “Threatened forests in Asia, Africa and Russia are home to a number of critically endangered species. The current failure to protect forests around the world from illegal (and in some cases legal but unsustainable) logging is resulting in what has been described as the next great ‘spasm of extinction’.”
Let us hope that the probable implications of ‘over-logging’ in Guyana, allegedly through greed, are taken seriously, and that the question of widespread flooding whenever it rains is earnestly examined and is not now exclusively the result of indiscriminate logging.
The Guyanese people have suffered enough, trying just to survive!
Geralda Dennison

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