Since logging in the tropics is generally selective—focusing on trees with particular commercial qualities—even low levels of logging alter the system. For example, when older, larger trees ...

developing best practices for selective logging in the Republic of the Congo that allows forest managers to maintain timber harvests while cutting carbon emissions by up to 50 percent; and In ...

International agreements, 'debt for nature' swaps and selective logging and replanting of trees can all be used to help reduce deforestation. Rainforests have four main layers: the emergent ...