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Former Malaysian chief: legal logging also 'destructive' forests

2014-11-30 00:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is calling for limits on legal logging in the Southeast Asian nation. In an oped published today in the Malaysia Mail Online, the long-serving ruler called legal logging "destructive". "We are reading a lot about illegal logging and illegal workers. It is right that illegal logging should be stopped and illegal workers arrested and deported," he wrote. "But what about legal logging? They may be legal but they are also destroying even more...

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