Summary Of The Politics Of Logging: Power From The Forest

Marites Vitug (1993) narrates in her book, entitled The Politics of Logging: Power from the Forest, the possible environmental conditions that we can have if the current abusive practices which are being done to our environment and in particular to our forest continue. Moreover, Vitug (1993) also stated how the cases of deforestation in the Philippines started. She highlighted the rate of the environmental destruction that happened during the Marcos regime. After that, the actions made by the Aquino administration which served as the price that this new administration had to pay for the problems that the Marcos regime created were mentioned in the book by Vitug (1993). Finally, she also mentioned the connections and interactions between the
Thus, we must care for and consider the welfare of the non-human animals as much as we care for and consider our own welfare if we truly want to conserve our forest ecosystems. As a matter of fact, according to Barbara MacKinnon (2009), 60-70 million non-human animals are utilized annually around the world. In US, 15 million non-human animals are used in experiments yearly. Due to “higher standards of animal welfare, scientific advances and stricter controls”, these numbers decreased after it peaked in 1970. Despite of this, US still recorded significant numbers of non-human animals which were utilized as laboratory specimens in 2002. This report includes 77,091 cats, 96,061 primates, 77,906 dogs, 304,039 guinea pigs, 312,630 rabbits, and 193,115
These kinds of activities lack in the practical aspect and in the comprehensive, scientific and critical manner of contributing to the conservation of our forests. It is much better if there is a portion where the people can implement and practice what they have learned. Moreover, the people and their practices must be monitored. The major drawback of these kinds of activities resides on its