Guest guest Posted May 30, 2002 Report Share Posted May 30, 2002 Editorial - The New Straits Times Felling the environment news May 23: ILLEGAL logging is no petty crime and its perpetrators deserve to be harshly punished. For, uncontrolled deforestation carries with it consequences of terrible proportions on the environment meaning, naturally, those suffering from the results of today's greed will be the generations of tomorrow. Greed, pure and simple, is its driving force. It is claimed by those who know that illegal logging is carried out by those who already have access to timber concessions. This is probably true as logging is not something done armed with just a simple axe or, for that matter, even a chainsaw. A large tree is not easily felled and then carried or rolled out of the jungle. It is not as though one can march into the jungle, chop down a tree and then lug it on one's back to the market. No. It is, instead, a business requiring sizeable capital investments, strong political connections and much co-ordination. Logically, therefore, only a licensed logger can be an illegal one. After all, it is almost impossible to be an invisible logger. How does one hide the hole in the jungle from the authorities? There are forest rangers policing the forests to make sure that loggers licensed to operate will do so in the manner designated. Those found to stray from the given parameters will be penalised accordingly. If, then, the legal loggers are themselves supervised, surely those who should not be there would be noticed. There is, therefore, an unsavoury assumption that can be made here: harapkan pagar, pagar makan padi the trustees are then, the culprits. There must be stronger enforcement to stop these people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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