Study Calls Selective Logging the Most Realistic Conservation Strategy

Yale Environment 360: A new study says that well-managed selective logging may be the only realistic solution to conserving tropical forests in the face of a rapacious global demand for timber resources. In an analysis of more than 100 studies, researchers at the University of Florida found that while even selective logging has a significant impact on biodiversity in tropical forests and carbon storage capacity, those impacts are "survivable and reversible to a degree" if the forests are given time to recover. In fact,...

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Enclosure: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00242.x/abstract;jsessionid=F665049B271709D388713D0A0DA4E2D6.d02t01