GEMET
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Environmental
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Umweltbelastung durch Forstwirtschaft
Definition

The world's forestry resources are shrinking at an alarming rate. The need for foreign exchange encourages many developing countries to cut timber faster than forests can be regenerated. This overcutting not only depletes the resource that underpins the world timber trade, it causes loss of forest-based livelihoods, increases soil erosion and downstream flooding, and accelerates the loss of species and genetic resources.

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Concept URL: http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/2835