Distribution Network
Content
Wood will be sent by the US timber industry to Indonesia for the rebuilding of Aceh province, where the Indian Ocean tsunami killed 160,000 people and left 500,000 homeless.
Aceh requires more than a million cubic metres of wood to replace homes and schools but it needs to preserve its tropical forests, where its government imposed a logging moratorium in 2001.
The American Forest & Paper Association, the World Wildlife Fund and Conservation International are organizing the collection of donated wood from the US timber industry and are appealing to businesses and government agencies to fund the shipping to Indonesia.
The three organizations said in a statement: ‘Without imported timber, pressure will increase to illegally log the remaining tropical forests, threatening their existence.’
Michael Ross, of the World Wildlife Fund, said: ‘If we can’t supply at least some of the timber with renewable wood from abroad, we are going to lose the forests of Sumatra.’
Aceh requires more than a million cubic metres of wood to replace homes and schools but it needs to preserve its tropical forests, where its government imposed a logging moratorium in 2001.
The American Forest & Paper Association, the World Wildlife Fund and Conservation International are organizing the collection of donated wood from the US timber industry and are appealing to businesses and government agencies to fund the shipping to Indonesia.
The three organizations said in a statement: ‘Without imported timber, pressure will increase to illegally log the remaining tropical forests, threatening their existence.’
Michael Ross, of the World Wildlife Fund, said: ‘If we can’t supply at least some of the timber with renewable wood from abroad, we are going to lose the forests of Sumatra.’
Super Featured
No
Featured
No