Illegal timber extraction is another problem, and artisanal gold mining causes some local damage.

However, timber extraction remains the most popular, and arguably most destructive, activity by far.

They put an upper limit of 4.6 million cubic meters on annual timber extraction.

Coral rag forest, a sensitive ecosystem, is under threat due to timber extraction, since 1970s.

Illegal timber extraction plays a significant role in deforestation and habitat degradation.

Loads of gravel tracks, which were there anyway for timber extraction, are now signed and dedicated to cycling.

The economy is largely based on timber extraction from the extensive tropical rainforest.

The reason for this clearance appears to have been economic, to make timber extraction from the glen easier.

Commercial timber extraction has been expanding rapidly over the past decade in the province.

In 1942 elephants were used for evacuation rather than timber extraction from February till the end of April.