51.  In another development, unidentified armed men seized an employee of a logging company in the southern town of Sibuco on Monday, a military report in Manila said.

52.  Indonesian authorities have temporarily halted the operation of a logging company in Irian Jaya until security is re-established in the area following a recent kidnapping, reports said Monday.

53.  Indonesian soldiers shot dead a woman in a dispute at a logging company in the easternmost province of Papua, a rights activist said Tuesday.

54.  A Chamber of Deputies committee will investigate Asian logging companies that have bought vast tracts of Amazon basin land, wood companies and sawmills, congressional officials said Thursday.

55.  Vanuatu has two other environmental reserves on the islands of Erromango and Santo, aimed at preserving tropical hardwood eagerly sought by foreign logging companies.

56.  Logging companies, mostly from Asia, have cleared out several forests in the Solomons, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.

57.  Revenue from the reserve is slightly lower than what landowners would have obtained from a logging company.

58.  The map will be updated regularly, so that deforestation can be monitored and governments and logging companies can be kept to their commitments, Sullivan said.