Suriname is the world’s new cockpit of deforestatian. The cash-strapped South American government has licensed a quarter of the country’s rainforest for logging, much of it pristine and accessible only by dugout canoe. In Forest Politics in Suriname (International Books, Utrecht, 拢9.99/$17.50, ISBN 90 6224 975 2), Marcus Colchester, a forensic and angry campaigner, unpicks the politics behind the logging, which he says will bring human tragedy and ecological ruin.
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