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Printing Office, 1994), 174-75. Describing the early 1990s, the authors write: “Eleven foreign-
based companies or joint ventures accounted for 90 percent of the country's logging operations.
One German subsidiary alone accounted for 40 percent of logging in Zaire.”
30 With the war now over This is happening despite a moratorium on industrial logging imposed
by the Congolese government. Many logging companies are in fact getting artisanal logging per-
mits, as reported by Greenpeace. “DRC's moratorium on industrial logging being bypassed,”
Greenpeace, May 15, 2012, http://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/Press-Centre-Hub/Press-re-
leases/Greenpeace-DRCs-moratorium-on-industrial-logging-being-bypassed/ . See also: Jeremy
Hance, “Congo Legalized 15 Logging Concessions, Prompting Concern That Moratorium Will
Be Lifted Next,” Mongabay.com , March 13, 2011, http://news.mongabay.com/2011/
0313-hance_drc_logging.html# .
The deforestation rate for 1990-2005, previous to the current economic and political stability,
was only 1.1 percent (according to Mongabay.com ) , or 1.84 percent (according to Observatoire
des Forêts d'Afrique Centrale): http://www.observatoire-comifac.net/docs/edf2010/EN/
SOF_2010_EN_Chap_1.pdf )
30 Already, global deforestation Daniel Howden, “Deforestation: The Hidden Cause of Global
Warming,” Independent , May 14, 2007. Howden writes:
Figures from the [Global Canopy Programme], summarising the latest findings from the Un-
ited Nations, and building on estimates contained in the Stern Report, show deforestation ac-
counts for up to 25 per cent of global emissions of heat-trapping gases, while transport and
industry account for 14 per cent each; and aviation makes up only 3 per cent of the total. .
. . Scientists say one day's deforestation is equivalent to the carbon footprint of eight mil-
lion people flying to New York. Reducing those catastrophic emissions can be achieved most
quickly and most cheaply by halting the destruction in Brazil, Indonesia, the Congo and else-
where.
30 In the process One study suggests that, for unknown reasons, Africa's tropical forests might
sequester a disproportional amount of carbon. University of Leeds, “One-Fifth of Fossil-Fuel
Emissions Absorbed by Threatened Forests,” ScienceDaily , February 19, 2009, ht-
tp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218135031.htm .
30 Zoologists Guy Cowlishaw Cowlishaw and Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology , 1.
30 Humans have devastated W. H. Freeman and Company, “The Current Mass Extinction,” PBS,
1992, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/2/l_032_04.html .
30 Despite the severity Cowlishaw and Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology , 1.
30 and given our current rate Michael Soulé, “Conservation Biology and the 'Real World,'” 1986,
http://www.michaelsoule.com/resource_files/172/172_resource_file1.pdf .
31 Trees covered the earth Christopher James Williams, “Reconstruction of High-Latitude Ter-
tiary Floodplain Forests in the Canadian Arctic.” PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2002.
ProQuest (AAT 3055015); Jaelyn. J. Eberle et al., “Seasonal Variability in Arctic Temperatures
During Early Eocene Time,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 296 no. 3-4 (August 2010):
481-86.
31 Palm trees grew Bruce Bower, “Wyoming Fossils Shake Up Views of Early Primate Migra-
tion,” Science News 129 no. 5 (February 1986). The existence of simple primates previous to this
timeframe is open to some speculation, molecular clock studies suggesting that they originated
as early as eighty-five million years ago (Cowlishaw and Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology ,
18).
31 But as the continents
Cowlishaw and Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology , 18-19.
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