2007-04-30

WB encourages deforestation?

In a news tidbit from February it seems that the World Bank wants to encourage deforestation and ecosystem degradation.

"The World Bank has released a report encouraging the Indonesian government to create vast timber plantations that would damage local ecosystems and livelihood, in order to encourage economic growth."

Read more on:
http://www.theecologist.org/news_detail.asp?content_id=760

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