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Summarize the AUTHOR'S main point or idea:
In this article, the author discusses the idea of how our tropical forests are managed for the best benefits for us, and conservationists. The main priority is to maintain a sustainable management between the two by knowing the risks, benefits and what the possible outcomes could be. This would mean that loggers have to cut down a certain number of trees in order to make some profit to allow the forest to regrow for the next season/time they have to be cut down again. This is apparently a good idea and sounds like there are no drawbacks, but there are some side effects that can disrupt the entire ecosystem, like making the forest vulnerable to fires, or spreading diseases. This ends up resulting in no profit for loggers or the environment.
Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic, using specific citations from the article to support your views:
After reading this article, I thought of the many different problems tropical forests have with living aside with humans. This includes making roads, reconstruction sites and farm development are also interfering with the boundaries of nature. Not only that, but apparently they can't find a solution for sustainable management for loggers as well. So for now, this only ends with an empty forest and no profit.
- Deforestation in the tropics continues relentlessly and on a vast scale - driven, in part, by the widespread logging of highly prized tropical woods
- Forest management is an attractive strategy because, in theory, it reconciles the economic interests of producers with the needs of conservation
- Management requires both restraint in cutting trees and investment in replacing them by planting seedlings or by promoting the natural regeneration of harvested species
- Uncontrolled logging would invariably obliterate the older stands, where nearly all trees would be of a marketable size
- Those worries were exacerbated by the realization that there would be little natural growth to replace harvested trees even if the loggers cut the forest sparingly
- efforts to sustain the production of mahogany could disturb so much forest that the overall conservation objectives would surely be compromised
- less than one eighth of 1 percent of the world’s tropical production forests were operating on a sus LOGGED FORESTS can differ dramatically in the level of disturbance they experience
- Due to circumstances, many companies are reluctant to investing in long term logging
- Only the tiny fraction of growth that contained commercially valuable timber
- Logging, as typically practiced in the tropics, rapidly harvests the most highly valued trees
- The number of species extracted may be as low as one (where there is a specialty wood, such as mahogany)or as high as 80 to 90
- In deciding whether to restrict harvests, companies face a choice between cutting trees immediately and banking the profits or delaying the harvest and allowing the stand to grow in volume and value over time
Summarize the AUTHOR'S main point or idea:
In this article, the author discusses the idea of how our tropical forests are managed for the best benefits for us, and conservationists. The main priority is to maintain a sustainable management between the two by knowing the risks, benefits and what the possible outcomes could be. This would mean that loggers have to cut down a certain number of trees in order to make some profit to allow the forest to regrow for the next season/time they have to be cut down again. This is apparently a good idea and sounds like there are no drawbacks, but there are some side effects that can disrupt the entire ecosystem, like making the forest vulnerable to fires, or spreading diseases. This ends up resulting in no profit for loggers or the environment.
Write a reaction paragraph to the article stating your own thoughts on the topic, using specific citations from the article to support your views:
After reading this article, I thought of the many different problems tropical forests have with living aside with humans. This includes making roads, reconstruction sites and farm development are also interfering with the boundaries of nature. Not only that, but apparently they can't find a solution for sustainable management for loggers as well. So for now, this only ends with an empty forest and no profit.