| Left image: Family displaced by creation
of rubber plantation. In order to create the plantation a 30 mile
patch of prime rain forest was destroyed. International monitors
suspect that the timber profits were the prime objective of the
project. By labeling the project “community” development
the company tried to avoid the current logging moratorium. The director
of the provincial forestry department who recommended the project
described its effect as “enhancing peoples living conditions
and …protecting the environment.” |
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