These countries are 3d world countries which simply have much
other problems than keeping their people who are hungry from burning
down forests to survive.
Our way of thinking on protection is luxury. These countries are not
parks of the western world but countries with people asking for
nothing else than the same rights that are usual in our societies.
Another big problem is corruption.In Indonesia e.g.
it's well known that a big deal of money which is earned by
contracts with foreign countries (including foreign logging
companies) directly goes in the President's pocket, who is frequently
called "Mr. 10 Precent" by critical Indonesians. We have to be aware
that many countries are lead by corruption.
> Try working with botanists in these countries so that they may
> effect change from within.
Changes are hard to achieve in a country where salesmen _have_ to put
a portrait of the president in their salesroom if they do not want to
suffer from repressions by the local police; where the police-men are
very very low paid and nevertheless many people try to get these jobs
because these jobs provide a way to get much more money by inofficial
ways (=corruption).
Even if there would be no corruption in such countries I still wonder
how a responsible person could keep the rapidly increasing population
from taking what they need for nothing else than surviving (=burning
the forests to grow their basic needs).
Andreas
Andreas Wistuba; Mudauer Ring 227; 68259 Mannheim; Germany
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