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Facing legacy deforestation &corruption, Sarawak may cease granting logging concessions

2015-01-19 01:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Logging road in neighboring Sabah. Legal logging has caused substantial forest loss and degradation in Sarawak over the past 30 years, depleting canopy cover, altering forest structure, exacerbated hunting, and driving conversion to plantations. Sarawak Chief Minister Adenan Satem says his government may stop granting new logging concessions, reports Malaysian state media. "Enough with this broad daylight robbery of our timber," Adenan was reported as saying by Bernama during an event last...

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