1. The Chinese Timber Trade and the Logging of Peruvian Amazonia.
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PUTZEL, LOUIS, PADOCH, CHRISTINE, and PINEDO‐VASQUEZ, MIGUEL
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LOGGING & the environment , *LUMBER industry & the environment , *BIODEGRADATION , *DIPTERYX , *RAIN forest ecology , *HARDWOODS - Abstract
The article discusses the role that China plays in illegal logging of global forests, focusing especially on logging-fueled biodegradation of Peruvian Amazonia. While there is extensive importation of wood products to China from the region, there is no evidence of active Chinese companies in this area of Latin America. Of the wood exported, 95% of it derives from three ecologically important rainforest hardwoods: Dipteryx spp., Miroxylon balsamum, and Manilkara bidentata. Methods through which the ecological impact of this may be assessed are discussed.
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- 2008
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