Of Apes and Lumberjacks
September 15, 2014Advertisement
Tropical ecologists are at work on a concept that would allow limited harvesting of trees without destroying the gorillas' habitat. They take censuses of both trees and gorillas and mark the individual trees for felling. Just over one quarter of the country's total rainforest area remains entirely off limits to lumberjacks. It appears the ecologists have found a happy balance.