. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific. Men 'scaling', or measunng, the logs hauled from the Jorcsi lo the dumping ground. Kimanis, Sahah, Maluysiu. WWF Sylvia Vorath markets such as those to Japan. Only Indonesia has really managed to escape this trap. This is because it had considerable income and local capital at its disposal when it started to develop its plywood industry. Despite this success though, the Indonesian plywood industry is still criticised for its inefficient marketing, even to Japan, where since 1987 it has gained a respectable share of the market.
. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific. Men 'scaling', or measunng, the logs hauled from the Jorcsi lo the dumping ground. Kimanis, Sahah, Maluysiu. WWF Sylvia Vorath markets such as those to Japan. Only Indonesia has really managed to escape this trap. This is because it had considerable income and local capital at its disposal when it started to develop its plywood industry. Despite this success though, the Indonesian plywood industry is still criticised for its inefficient marketing, even to Japan, where since 1987 it has gained a respectable share of the market. (Japan has now- supplanted the USA as Indonesia's major plywood client.) In a number of Southeast Asian and Pacific countries, the reliance on raw commodity exports, compounded by a lack of market infor- mation, has opened the way to abuses and corruption. These have occurred at all levels, ranging from the failure to abide by logging rules, to the false grading of timber, to bribing officials in relation to export documentation, illegal exports and large-scale transfer pricing. In the Philippines these all came to light with the change of government in 1986. It has been shown that in the early 1980s around 40 per cent of logs exported from the Philippines to Japan went unrecorded and were in fact illegal (Nectoux and Kuroda, 1989). A recent official enquiry into commercial forestry in Papua New- Guinea also unearthed similar practices on a considerable scale (see chapter 21). In the long term there will be less and less commercially valuable umber available. Total deforestation is not likely to occur in the Asia-Pacific region, but in those countries where natural forests have been overlogged, and regeneration management is inadequate, it is unlikely that forests can remain productive. Thailand, once a signifi- cant timber exporter, has experienced a deficit in its timber require- ment balance since the 1970s. Deforestation is so extensive that catastrophic flooding occurred
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