Nicaragua cloud forest 'under siege' by illegal loggers

[Judi Lynn]

Nicaragua cloud forest 'under siege' by illegal loggers
3 May 2013 Last updated at 05:38 ET

Matt McGrath
By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent, BBC News


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The Bosawas Reserve is a critically important rainforest but native people say it is being destroyed by "colonists"[/font]

A famed rainforest in Nicaragua is under growing threat from illegal loggers, say indigenous leaders.

The Bosawas Biosphere Reserve is Central America's largest tropical, forest with clouds constantly drifting over the hilly terrain. But the Mayangna and Miskito people who live there say 30,000 hectares a year are being deforested by "colonists". They are calling on US president Barack Obama, who is visiting the region, to support their battle.

Described by the United Nations as a global biological treasure, the reserve is located on the border between Nicaragua and Honduras and teems with wildlife.

The two million hectares are said to be home to 150,000 insect species, rare jaguars, eagles and crocodiles as well as the world's last populations of Baird's Tapir and the Central American Spider Monkey.

More:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22379788

[naaman fletcher]

1. They want US interference

In internal Nicaragua affairs?

Do you support that?

[Judi Lynn]

2. Where the #### do you imagine they think these assholes are coming from?

Don't waste your time trying to engage me in your ancient game. We've all seen you do it more times than we can stomach. It was old, and obnoxious a long time ago.

[naaman fletcher]

3. Read the article

It says they come from elsewhere in Nicaragua. Also, if you had ever stepped foot in Latin America you would know that it's not Americans with chainsaws doing illegal logging.

You are simply incorrect.

[Judi Lynn]

4. I see. The Nicaraguans take the lumber, make their chairs and sit on them.

Yep, that sounds about right.

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For those who think differently:

America’s Free Trade
for Illegal Timber

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As this report is published, the US is cementing
economic partnerships which could further speed the destruction
of Southeast Asian and Latin American forests. The list of
looming US Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) reads like a who’s
who of states involved in the global illegal logging epidemic:
Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Peru and Central America.

. . . . .

http://www.eia-global.org/PDF/report--FreeTrade--forests--jun06.pdf

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No Questions Asked
The Impacts of U.S. Market Demand for
Illegal Timber - and the Potential for Change
Environmental Investigation Agency

http://www.eia-global.org/PDF/report-NQA-forests-oct07.pdf

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U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru's Amazon rainforest
Jeremy Hance
mongabay.com
April 10, 2012

Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0410-hance_illegallogging_peru_eia.html#wYFUzLmz2r1ygOzl.99

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[naaman fletcher]

5. You said

2. Where the #### do you imagine they think these assholes are coming from?

It says right in the article they come from Nicaragua.

You were wrong.

Now you are changing the subject.

Anyway, it's interesting that you think our status of end buyer of an illegal good originating from Latin America justifies our interfering in the affairs of a Latin American nation. I wonder how that tends to work out...

Hopefully Ortega will resist your call for US interference in Nicaragua.

[Judi Lynn]

6. So odd of you attempting to spin my comments.

IF you had a conscience it wouldn't allow you to try to screw other people around like that.

As the situation is already perfectly clear I don't need to pursue this.

Nicarguans want the U.S. interference going on now to leave. Go! Shove off! Desist.

No other meaning is possible.

Forget trying to tell DU'ers what other DU'ers mean when they can tell themselves perfectly well.

You've lost your moral compass. I think you ate it.

[naaman fletcher]

7. I didn't spin your comments

I didn't spin your comments at all.