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莫桑比克蒙德拉内大学研究人员新发表的一份报告显示，莫桑比克非法伐木在过去5年多时间里迅速攀升。这份刊登在联合国粮食和农业组织网站上的报告，评估了木材的生产、消费和出口，发现目前近三分之二的伐木都是非法的。报告指出，伐木速度超过了树木再生的速度，威胁到了工业的长期存在发展，置当地民众的生计于危险之中。
支持该研究的林业专家山姆·劳森估计每年有价值2.5亿美元的木材被非法砍伐，导致国家税收重要来源减少。这些税收本来是要用于执法部门和更好地进行林业管理。
劳森进一步指出，此项报告“特别及时”，因为此阶段主持国家林业发展的官员——农业部长帕切科——是总统竞选候选人之一，他今年下半年将开始竞选行程。去年的调查显示帕切科涉嫌与一个重量级的木材走私商有关系，但该部长否认有犯罪行为。
该报告立即受到本国呼吁林业改革的非政府组织的欢迎。
Illegal logging has spiked over the past five years in Mozambique, finds a new report by researchers at the University of Eduardo Mondlane. The report, published on the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's web site, assesses timber production, consumption, and exports, finding that nearly two-thirds of logging is currently illegal. The report notes that harvesting is exceeding sustainable levels, threatening the long-term viability of the industry and putting local livelihoods at risk.
Forestry expert Sam Lawson, who assisted with the study, estimates that $250 million of illegal timber is cut each year, depriving the country of important tax revenue that could go toward law enforcement and better forest management.
Lawson adds that the report "is especially timely" because the official who has presided over the country's forests during the period — Minister of Agriculture Jose Pacheco — is on the shortlist of Presidential candidates who may stand in the election scheduled for later this year. An investigation last year linked Pacheco to a major timber smuggler, but the minister denied wrongdoing.
The report was immediately welcomed by NGO's who went on to call for forestry reform in the country.
(Source: www.enn.com/wildlife/article/47108 )
支持该研究的林业专家山姆·劳森估计每年有价值2.5亿美元的木材被非法砍伐，导致国家税收重要来源减少。这些税收本来是要用于执法部门和更好地进行林业管理。
劳森进一步指出，此项报告“特别及时”，因为此阶段主持国家林业发展的官员——农业部长帕切科——是总统竞选候选人之一，他今年下半年将开始竞选行程。去年的调查显示帕切科涉嫌与一个重量级的木材走私商有关系，但该部长否认有犯罪行为。
该报告立即受到本国呼吁林业改革的非政府组织的欢迎。
Illegal logging has spiked over the past five years in Mozambique, finds a new report by researchers at the University of Eduardo Mondlane. The report, published on the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's web site, assesses timber production, consumption, and exports, finding that nearly two-thirds of logging is currently illegal. The report notes that harvesting is exceeding sustainable levels, threatening the long-term viability of the industry and putting local livelihoods at risk.
Forestry expert Sam Lawson, who assisted with the study, estimates that $250 million of illegal timber is cut each year, depriving the country of important tax revenue that could go toward law enforcement and better forest management.
Lawson adds that the report "is especially timely" because the official who has presided over the country's forests during the period — Minister of Agriculture Jose Pacheco — is on the shortlist of Presidential candidates who may stand in the election scheduled for later this year. An investigation last year linked Pacheco to a major timber smuggler, but the minister denied wrongdoing.
The report was immediately welcomed by NGO's who went on to call for forestry reform in the country.
(Source: www.enn.com/wildlife/article/47108 )