Sep 29, 2006

China Says Illegal Logging Brought Under Control

Reuters: Illegal logging in China has been bought under control, though there are still parts of the country where the situation is serious, a police official said on Thursday. In recent years China has suffered severe flooding that has in part been blamed on excessive logging driven by the country's breakneck economic growth. In 2002, China banned all logging along the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers in an effort to control the problem. "We can see from the present situation that after ... Link