Tree felling

Tree felling

From Republika

I am very concerned with the way logs from West Kalimantan are
being smuggled into Malaysia. According to the police who
intercepted the activity recently, the wood is shipped in
thousands of cubic meters.

Timber companies allotted forest concessions have no concern
for the forests' ecology. They are exploiting the forests with a
ferocity that calls for a halt.

But, how odd it is to learn that in the Kalimantan forest
issue the main people blamed for the forest destruction are
always the nomadic tribes who used to clear a forest site for one
sowing period, then move on to another area afterwards.

I believe that the environmental degradation and ecological
destruction by recalcitrant forest concessionaires is no longer
acceptable. How much is the country going to suffer if the
authorities do not do anything to prevent this from happening?

TEDDY SANDRA

Pontianak, West Kalimantan