Comments on: Sustainability Issues of producing &using products made from wood? http://okavangochallenge.com/sustainability-issues/sustainability-issues-of-producing-using-products-made-from-wood Sat, 19 May 2012 13:51:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: b a g o n g http://okavangochallenge.com/sustainability-issues/sustainability-issues-of-producing-using-products-made-from-wood/comment-page-1#comment-3740 b a g o n g Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:24:59 +0000 http://okavangochallenge.com/sustainability-issues/sustainability-issues-of-producing-using-products-made-from-wood#comment-3740 A problem that exists today is the sheer profits earned in the timber industry by the various loggers, manufacturers and vendors. Further to this, an unfortunate oversight is that most of the logging and manufacturing is performed in countries where trees are abundant, but strict enforcement and regulations against their harvest is not. Without control, the rate of deforestation not only surpasses our ability to rebuild these forests, but threatens the delicate balance of our world’s ecosystems and our very lives. taken from http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:lgb_NCnxFSgJ:www.asiaplywoodcompany.com/Environmental%2520Sustainability%2520Concerns%2520in%2520Wood.pdf+Sustainability+Issues+of+producing+%26+using+products+made+from+wood&hl=id&gl=id&sig=AHIEtbSjVu8t2EKmOwty79T85hoU3JpC4g for non-wood http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5325E/x5325e03.htm<br><b>References : </b><br> A problem that exists today is the sheer profits
earned in the timber industry by the various
loggers, manufacturers and vendors. Further to
this, an unfortunate oversight is that most of the
logging and manufacturing is performed in
countries where trees are abundant, but strict
enforcement and regulations against their harvest is
not. Without control, the rate of deforestation not
only surpasses our ability to rebuild these forests,
but threatens the delicate balance of our world’s
ecosystems and our very lives.

taken from http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:lgb_NCnxFSgJ:www.asiaplywoodcompany.com/Environmental%2520Sustainability%2520Concerns%2520in%2520Wood.pdf+Sustainability+Issues+of+producing+%26+using+products+made+from+wood&hl=id&gl=id&sig=AHIEtbSjVu8t2EKmOwty79T85hoU3JpC4g
for non-wood http://www.fao.org/docrep/x5325E/x5325e03.htm
References :

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