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Even reduced-impact logging in the Amazon may be unsustainable

2016-07-13 20:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Researchers in the Brazilian Amazon say they have found no evidence that the composition of timber species and total forest value recover even after highly selective logging, suggesting that the most commercially valuable species must inevitably become rare or even economically extinct in old logging frontiers. Brazil accounts for 85 percent of all native neotropical forest roundlog production, but the sustainability of timber harvests beyond the initial, typically selective rounds of logging,...

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