Martin Herzog
Inselstrasse 62
4057 Basel
Tel/Fax: (061) 831 80 15
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Martin Herzog Inselstrasse 62 4057 Basel
Tel/Fax: (061) 831 80 15
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Photo Report
At the edge of the forest on the Arba Gugu mountains we see what happens to those forests: they are being converted into agricultural land.
That the forest is an officially declared reserve does visibly not stop infringements.
A careful, single-tree harvest, limited to a buffer zone of let's say 4000 out of the 8000 ha, would produce sufficient wood, work and income (!) for all families in the surrounding communities. Being able to live from the forest -what reason would they have to convert and destroy it?
As the situation is at present, the prescious wood of Hagenya, Celtis, Cordia, Juniperus and Podocarpus is either straight away burned - or in the best case - used for local construction and to make fences! But - in spite of the local overproduction of precious woods - the goverment, with international assistance, sees the solution not in establishing local processing and marketing facilities - but in plantations of fast growing Cupressus lusitanica ....
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