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Legal logging decimates forests - group

Phillipine Sun Star: Legal, not illegal, large-scale logging is the major culprit in deforestation. Lisa Ito of the Kalikasan-Philippine Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE), during her presentation on the Philippine environmental situation for the Southern Mindanao Conference on the Environment held at the Holy Cross of Davao College Friday, said that in the 1900s, forest cover was estimated at 21 million hectares of 70 percent of the total land area. Yet a few decades of "development ... Read »
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