Cut and run illegal logging and timber trade in the tropics (International Development Research Centre, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-112)
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 The World: Understanding the Illegal Logging and Timber Trade; Chapter 2 Brazil: Forest Management at Loggerheads; Chapter 3 Cameroon: Blind Ambition and the Domino Effect; Chapter 4 Ghana: A History of Mismanagement; Chapter 5 Paraguay: The Many Faces of Deforestation; Chapter 6 The Tropics: Comparing the Countries Studied; Chapter 7 Conclusions and Recommendations: Arresting the Chase for Quick Profits; Appendix 1 Resolution on Illegal Timber Trade, Adopted at the 1996 IUCN World Conservation Congress
Illegal logging and trade in timber is a major cause of forest degradation in the world today. Not only does it threaten biodiversity-rich old growth forests, it also endangers the livelihoods of the traditional communities that are dependent upon them. But controlling this global problem is not a simple matter of enacting new laws and enforcing new regulations -- the rules already exist. If countries are to manage their forest sustainably they must implement existing laws effectively, and they must do so now! Cut and Run offers readers valuable insight on how this might be done