Sentences with phrase «devastated public forests»
All told, illegal logging has devastated public forests around the globe, reducing incentives for locals to invest in sustainable forestry and accumulating losses of revenue to governments of some $ 15 billion annually.
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It was a subdued and measured way to end (for now) what has become one of Russia's most controversial disputes, an issue that, combined with the summer's devastating wildfires, has «heightened public anger over what is seen as government neglect of the country's forests,» RFE / RL wrote.