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117: Patrick Alley | Blood Diamonds, Kleptocrats, Very Bad People & The Investigations Of Global Witness

Curious Worldview Podcast

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Sustainable Forest Management in the Tropics

I was really interested to learn about the timber trade from you, because that is also a consistent theme. Can you explain like the nuances of the world's timber trades? Just break it down, because presumably this is totally unknown for most of the people listening. What's economically sustainable is not ecologically sustainable. And if you're carving chunks out of the forest, you're dividing it up and building corridors through it. These are roads into the forest. Once those are there, then you get the bushmeat hunters,. You get the wildcat miners who go in there and start mining for gold or whatever, using terrible chemicals. It's one of the things that sort of brought the Amazon to

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