The forestry sector has done well

Oct 12, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor;
I am a concerned forestry sector stakeholder and I am really sad at what a GFC board member Dr. Bulkan is doing to the forest industry. I know that she came from a background of logging and her family is still in the logging and processing. I want Bulkan to remember that it was the profits from the forest industry that provided monies for her school foundation.
That provided food for her and her family. And in those days there were no rules and laws and guidelines like now. There was not so much detailed monitoring and inspections.
I remind Ms Bulkan that everyone but she recognized that forestry has done well in Guyana. A forestry sector fellow worker wrote about all the audits and investigations done by outside experts. Does she want us to believe that these people are fooling Norway and FAO and UN? That does not seem possible because these experts would lose their status and reputation. If Guyana was doing badly they would say so.
They hold no sympathy for us. They come to do a job and they know that they have to tell the truth or their reputation will go down the drain with their career.
These experts operate on the basis of facts. They come and check and this checking is in the field; in the actual logging area. That is the only way in which they can make their reports which they know have to be based on facts.
They don’t sit in a fancy air conditioned office and do uninformed articles based on interviews with environment people and people who don’t prefer to see trees cut.
There are people who say untruthful things because they want to paint a bad picture. If Guyana was doing so badly how come we have a rate of deforesting that is less than 0.1 %?
Ms Bulkan needs to stop being an armchair critic who operates on the basis of interview and reports; reports which are biased and come from environment NGO’s two of which operate in Guyana.
Bulkan needs to remember where she came from and let other people get up in life too. Not kill our markets with her nonsense which most likely has the international experts laughing.
The university she works for should question her. No respectable university would have an employee publishing wrong information which results in increased poverty because people lose their markets.
She should shut up or resign as a board member. As a board member she has to support the sector not destroy it. I call on the board to take action.
Saleem Hamid
Essequibo Logger

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