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#climate Japan disaster to put logging pressure on rainforests in Indonesia, Malaysia: Mongabay http://j.mp/hgzp43 The tragic earthquake ...


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pan disaster to put logging pressure on rainforests in Indonesia, Malaysia
Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
April 05, 2011

The tragic earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan last month is likely to boost wood imports into the recovering nation, adding increased pressure on the already imperiled rainforests of Southeast Asia. Even before the disaster, Japan was the world's number one importer of wood chips and plywood and the second largest importer of logs. Japan usually imports plywood from China, Malaysia, and Indonesia, however the forests of Southeast Asia are facing tremendous loss due to logging and clearing for industrial-scale agriculture, such as palm oil.