P van Rijckevorsel wrote:

: The more durable woods tend to be overexploited and are ever
: more rare. For example lignum vitae is now CITES-listed

: Jie-san Laushi schreef
: All the more reason to reforest tropical deforested areas. Plant these
: rare, durable species on a large enough scale, and this will take pressure
: off the
: wild populations.

: Jie-san Laushi

: + + +

: Very little chance of that. These species with durable woods tend to take a
: long time to mature. General policy for replanting deforested areas is to
: use quickly maturing species, usually for paper pulp. Quite often pine or
: eucalypt. That is where the money is. Actually it still happens that entire
: natural forests containing some of the most beautiful hardwoods in the world
: are cut down and processed as pulp, at best to be replanted in pine or
: eucalypt..

acacia sp. are becoming more common.

regards

erastothenes


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