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Responsible logging |
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The BBC’s Environment Correspondent looks at different countries’ attempts to balance commercial timber production with environmental concerns. | |
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Timber production is a major industry in British Columbia. The BBC’s Richard Black looks at how the timber industry is changing there, and how it’s moving away from clear cutting large areas to more selective forms of logging. |
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The West African nation of Liberia is in the early stages of rebuilding after more than two decades of civil war. Liberia is one of the poorest nations in the world, but it’s rich in forest resources. In this documentary produced for the BBC World Service, Richard Black looks at how the forest industry in Liberia is being rebuilt under the watchful gaze of the United Nations. . |
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| Click here to listen to another BBC World Service documentary by Richard Black on Responsible Logging. In this program, he goes to Brazil’s Western Amazon region, where the government of the state of Acre has put conservation of the forests at the center of its development policies. | ||||||||
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| THE CHANGING WORLD is the sister documentary series of PRI's The World. Each week, we offer American radio listeners two in-depth documentaries from the BBC World Service that probe issues critical to our understanding of our evolving world. |
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