Asian companies made their entry in force in the 1990s, in Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. In Southeast Asia, companies intensively and unsustainably logged the dipterocarp forests, the tall, straight-trunked trees so valued by the plywood industry. Implicitly, it was decided that there would be only one harvest, leaving heavily degraded forests. What followed was […]

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