1.   But mahogany seedlings need light to grow, and selective cutting leaves only small holes in the canopy.

2.   Even selective cutting, environmentalists argue, will expose the forests to the roaring forties.

3.   Optical mapping involves selective cutting of DNA and gene sequences into defined lengths to create a pattern that helps characterize genomes and identify individual genes.

4.   And selective cutting thins remaining forests and lessens their biological diversity.

5.   Emmerson declined to be interviewed, but company foresters say a century of selective cutting by logging companies has emptied the forests of good timber.

6.   Longstanding beliefs that clear-cutting is safer than selective cutting also have placed importance on worker safety.

7.   The clip carries a sentence stating that Indonesia conducts selective cutting in its forests.