Hardwood timber brought down from the India / Burma border by boat, possibly illegally felled. Tangail District, Bangladesh
Hardwood timber brought down from the India / Burma border, possibly illegal felled. Bangladesh has very few hardwood forests left. By 1980 only about 16 percent of the land was forested, and forests had all but disappeared from the densely populated and intensively cultivated deltaic plain. Aid organizations in the mid-1980s began looking into the possibility of stimulating small-scale forestry to restore a resource for which there was no affordable substitute. The largest areas of forest are in the Chittagong Hills and the Sundarbans. The evergreen and deciduous forests of the Chittagong Hills cover more than 4,600 square kilometres (1,800 sq mi) and are the source of teak for heavy construction and boat building, as well as other forest products. Domesticated elephants are still used to haul logs. Tangail District, Bangladesh
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Location: Tangail District, Bangladesh
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