originalIllegal Logging Devours Honduran Forests
- US Group------------------------------------------------------------------------
TEGUCIGALPA - Illegal logging driven by an underground timber trade that stretches from Central America to the United States and Europe is destroying the forests of Honduras, a US -based environmental group said on Thursday.
The Environmental Investigation Agency, a nonprofit watchdog, said demand in the United States and other developed nations fuels an illegal timber trade in the heavily forested Central American nation, abetted by corrupt local officials.
"The people of Honduras can't save the forests if we will in effect receive stolen timber," Allan Thornton, president of the organization, said by telephone from Washington after releasing the report.
"There is massive illegal logging going on and the primary motivation is to export to the US market," he said.
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