published by: World Tibet Network News, Sunday - December 25, 1995

By The Associated Press, 25 Dec 1995

A survey of threats to forests, according to a World Wildlife Fund report on international forests and the impact of timber trade:

ASIA: Himalayan region of Nepal, India, Bhutan logged, degraded for fuel, fodder. Lowland forest of India, Nepal rapidly, often illegally, logged. Forests of China badly depleted, losses continuing, especially in Tibet. Rain forests, mangroves in Philippines reduced to fragments, still being illegally degraded. Forests in Malaysia, Indonesia rapidly being cleared by farmers, loggers, for pulp plantations. Forests already reduced to fragments over much of Thailand. Logging in Thailand ban increasing pressure on neighboring countries Burma, Cambodia, Laos.