21. Environmentalists say the industry involves the destruction of precious natural forests. 22. Farmers move each generation to start the process again in virgin areas where the natural forest canopy provides shade for the young seedlings and where the soil is rich. 23. He said the system, introduced by his predecessor Djamaludin Suryohadikusumo, not only increased wood production from natural forests, but also better protected the environment. 24. However, the whole grand concept had a serious flaw -- there was little scientific knowledge on how to actually regenerate a natural forest. 25. In Asia, new plantations are helping make up for loss of natural forests, it said. 26. Increased local community and non-government organization participation is projected to sufficiently supplement production from natural forest with those forest plantations. 27. Lair advocated releasing domesticated elephants into natural forests. 28. Many tropical countries have introduced harvesting restrictions and log export bans in view of their desire to protect the remaining natural forests. 29. President Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed in a message called for increasing forest resources by large-scale tree plantation and to reduce dependence on natural forests for firewood. 30. The alarming decline in natural forest land requires a major rethinking on the value of forests. |