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//__ **Logging** __//
// Noun: The activity or business of felling trees and cutting and preparing the timber.// Brown Mountain in East Gippsland, Australia-VicForests __//**Animals Affected By Logging**//__ ===Logging is destroying thousands of acres of rainforest by businesses across the world. The old wood is extremely valuable, causing many industries to take over and destroy ancient forests that cannot be replanted. Not only is timber being removed, but pollution from the machines and the roads needed to get to the timber and transport the timber is causing major damage. The soil is also left damaged by the machine tracks and can not re-grow the forest due to it's poor quality. Logging is a huge factor in the increasing deforestation problem.=== Both of these animals' habitats have been damaged due to logging. The chimapnzee directly affected since it lives in the trees and is losing space to live with the trees gone. The Amazon Pink River Dolphin is indirectly affected due to the loss of trees. Although dolphins are not land animals and trees are not a main source of their habitat, trees are essential in the water cycle; especially in the rainforest which is a self sufficient water cycle. Without these massive amounts of trees, the system will not be able to function and the River Dolphin will lose its habitat just as the chimpanzee did. **//__Interesting Fact: __//** "Research has found a high correlation between the presence of logging roads and consumption of "bushmeat"—wild animals hunted as food."-MongaBay.com **//__Ways We Can Prevent Logging__//** 1.Using alternatives to tropical timber. If you know something is made from timber that comes from the rainforest, do not buy it and find the same product or something similar to it that uses a different type of timber that is not harming the ecosystems of the rainforest. 2.RECYCLE PAPER!!! "Tropical rainforests are used as sources for pulpwood in paper manufacturing. However, with improved methods of paper recycling and more dependence on plantation forests, less wood need come from natural forests. Instead, rainforest wood can be used for more important purposes, for which it is more critical. As demand increases for pulpwood sources, more and more paper products are recycled and reused. International trade in waste paper is up 365 percent from 1980 levels, while consumption of such paper is up 217 percent."-Mongabay.com **//__The Environmental Defense Fund__//** The Environmental Defense Fund, not only works to save rainforests from loggers but helps in other areas that are in an environmental crisis as well. The Environmental Defense Fund are constantly taking data from the rainforest and calculating that data to keep on top of the rainforest's current state. By producing articles on its website, The Environmental defense Fund helps create awareness of the current state of the rainforests and other trouble environmental areas in the world. **//__Letter to VicForests__//** Dear Warren Hodgson, There are some things in this world that are impossible or next to impossible to replace. Unfortunately, the rainforest is one of those things. The rainforest is filled with hundreds of thousands of connections, many of them residing in a single tree. It is unfortunate to report that your company, VicForests, is assisting in the destruction of the rainforest. Your company is personally responsible for 2 million acres of eucalypt loss per year. This means these connections that took hundreds of years to develop are gone. As you may be aware, humans are causing many animals to become critically endangered of becoming extinct. Not only is this bad press, but there are no ways of rebuilding a population in a deforested area. The rainforest also provides the Earth with much of the oxygen the human species needs to survive. There are also many aboriginal races that reside in the rainforests. These tribes have lived in these areas for hundreds of years and will be in danger if exposed to industrialized society. They have not been exposed to many modern diseases and will have no immunity built up against illnesses such as the common cold. There is evidence that VicForests has started small conservation efforts but it is not enough. Logging is not a sustainable business. The trees will eventually run out because of the mass destruction being done on a daily basis. Logging companies cannot exist without trees. The best step towards the future would be to find other lucrative outlets that are sustainable such as using recycled products. Instead of selling pulplogs to paper companies, encourage them to use recycled paper products. While VicForests burns to promote plant regeneration, this is resulting in extreme habitat loss for the animals living there. Instead, there needs to be a large scale replanting campaign which will help the deforestation damage already done and also create good press for your company. There is no solution to create a sustainable logging company. Trees cannot regenerate that fast. In summation, it would be more prosperous for the future of VicForests to find another lucrative outlet that will not only save the environment but ensure financial stability for years to come.
 * //__Our Company__//**VicForests located in Victoria, Australia destroys two million eucalypt logs each year.VicForest's businesses and sales include: commercial sales, sustainable harvest, and mill door delivery.Logging

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