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It must be clear to any dispassionate observer of the forest scene anywhere in the tropics, not least in Asia, that governments in general are failing to stem the tide of destruction and degradation which is sweeping through their forests. Indeed some, alarmed by the rate at which it is occurring and by unprecedented events like the fires which swept across large areas in Kalimantan and Sabah during 1982 and 1983 (Leighton and Nengah Wirawan, 1986), are taking emergency, even panic, action, such as the banning by the Philippines of sawn timber exports and the halt to all logging in Thailand. It is clear from the rapid destruction, however, that something is wrong with either present government policies or with their implementation.
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Collins, N.M., Sayer, J.A., Whitmore, T.C. (1991). Government Policies and Land Use Planning. In: Collins, N.M., Sayer, J.A., Whitmore, T.C. (eds) The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests Asia and the Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12030-7_8
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