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Tropical forests overexploited by unsustainable logging

2016-07-14 03:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: Widely hailed as a renewable natural resource, tropical timber from old-growth tropical forests is selectively logged worldwide at an unprecedented scale. But research from the University of East Anglia reveals that these sources of timber are far from sustainable or entirely environmentally friendly. A study published in PLOS ONE reveals that once prime tropical hardwoods -- such as Brazilian cedars, ipe (Brazilian walnut), and rosewood -- have been logged, they do not grow back to commercial...

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