Did you know that every day there are about 72 million newspapers sold in Canada and the United States? It takes about 100,000 trees to supply these daily newspapers. Let's hope most of those papers are recycled so that we don't have to waste trees and fill up our landfill sites with more garbage.
Environmental haven for trees so protected that not all is
well
Environmental haven for trees so protected that not all is
well The kingdom of Bhutan has some of the world's
strictest environmental conservation laws. It also has some of the
world's last great forests, which contain high levels of
biodiversity. There are strict controls on logging, and trees may
be cut only by the state logging corporation. However, these strict
controls are detrimental to the Bhutanese economy. Many of the
population are poor, and if the state were to allow full-scale
logging, millions of dollars a year could be raised. Bhutan's
national assembly has now decided to change some regulations in an
attempt to gain a greater economic return from its forests.
Although Bhutan has declared that 60 per cent of the country must
remain forested, only 3 per cent of their national budget presently
goes to the forestry service. As a result, the service is unable to
properly maintain the huge forests. so changes in forest policy
could be beneficial for all. 18 MAY 1998
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