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Old 02-11-2010, 10:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Layman[_2_] View Post
Once people find out that something can be exploited, they start exploiting it from areas where it hasn't been
artificially planted. Just think of places like Bangladesh; if
mangroves were able to be exploited for charcoal, I am sure it would
have been done there, and goodness knows what would happen to that
low-lying land if the mangroves went.
They know it already. A large fraction of the world's mangroves have already been removed.