Monday, December 21, 2009
Meanwhile - 4,971 miles east of Moscow
There sure is a lot of stuff going on the world.
I bet you didn't know about this...
I bet you didn't know about this...
The BBC's Alfonso Daniels writes about Siberia's devastating illegal logging trade:
"In total, 10m cubic metres of wood, equivalent to nearly a third of all logging in the Amazon, is harvested every year from Russian soil.
This fuels a massive illegal business that threatens to destroy the largest forest on the planet in 20 to 30 years, according to Forest Trends, an international consortium of industry and conservation groups."
