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Leading Environmental Organizations Support Rain Forest Conservation
Workshops and roundtable discussions, hosted by the world's leading
environmental organizations, have successfully stopped senseless, destructive
clear-cutting and burning of Brazil's rain forest. Today, as a result of these
meetings, it is illegal to slash and burn the Brazilian rain forest. Below are recent
developments and conclusions garnered from these meetings.
“Commercial forestry plays an important part in rain forest conservation, affording
the highest value for trees in the forest and providing income as well as an
alternative to slash and burn agriculture. A strong market for exotic hardwood
will increase the value of the rain forest, and thereby incentive to conserve it.”
— Green Debates, BBC World Service
“Tropical rain forests will be preserved only if they are accorded economic
value. Blanket bans and embargoes will depress the value of exotic
hardwoods and the forests that contain them, diminishing the economic
incentives to conserve and manage these forests in the face of alternative land
uses which lead to their destruction.”
— Tropical Forestry Workshop, Smithsonian Institution
“A boycott of tropical timber products, except for specific circumstances, would
not promote sustainable forestry in producing countries at this time.”
— Rain Forest Alliance Workshop on the U.S. Tropical Timber Trade
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