Tropical Forest Exploitation
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The tropical forest is under the most threat from human development because it has the richest resources of any ecosystem in the world. The excellent growing climate gives the tropical forest an abundance of fast-growing trees, and the rainforest in Continental Equatorial Guinea, for example has over 140 species of wood and has been exploited by the lumber industry ("Africa: Forests under Threat"). In Gabon, the primary rainforests are rapidly disappearing due to logging of precious tropical wood, which is "practiced as a depredatory activity, where transnational logging companies, that hold huge concessions, make big money, while local communities have to bear the cost" ("Africa: Forests under Threat"). From 1960 to 1990, "the world lost 450 million hectares of its tropical forest cover, over one fifth of total remaining coverage," and "tropical deforestation releases approximately 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere each year(about 19 per cent of total global carbon emissions" ("The land: deforestation, desertification and pesticides"). Deforestation is brought abo
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