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Catch a Taiga By the Toe
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21 May 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Catch a Taiga By the Toe No one needs to tell the Amur tiger that species worldwide are endangered. A resident of Russia's far-eastern taiga forests, the tigers are severely threatened by insatiable and generally illegal logging in the region. In theory, Russia has some of the world's strictest logging laws, but the taiga's old-growth trees (such as Manchurian oak and Korean pine) fetch the highest prices on th ... |
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| Topics: logging, national forests, Russia, wildlife (all these topics) |
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