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Rainforests for Sale: Logging and Globalization
March 28, 1998
Only 22% of the world's old-growth forests remain intact. In the United States, that percentage has shrunk to 4%. Despite this decline, and the ecological risks associated with deforestation, multinational companies are chopping and paving their way through Latin America's rainforests. On this program, you'll hear from activists who are struggling to protect indigenous lands and resources. Also a report on an alternative to timber: hemp.
Featuring:
Christopher Hatch and Beto Borges, Rainforest Action Network's Old Growth Campaign; Amalia Dixon, native Meskito woman from the Atlantic coast of Nicaragua; Maria Teresa Guerrero, Independent Chihuahua Commission in Solidarity in Defense of Human Rights; Neal Lincoln, International Paper Company; Severo Ario Sable is the president of the Supreme Council of the Peoples of the Filo Mayor; Heather Easterday, Oxford Hemp Exchange; Tom Blanco, attorney; Emily Miggins, Earth Island Institute; Agua Fresca, former Colorado State Representative.