Despite a crackdown, illicit logging is on the rise in lawless areas of the Amazon

In Phillips' article, "Invisible but too real: the illegal roads speeding destruction of the rainforest: Despite a crackdown, illicit logging is on the rise in lawless areas of the Amazon", he is explaining how excessive illegal logging is in some areas of the Amazon. First he says that some people from there have tried to create some path secretly for transporting trees cut illegally by loggers in the Amazon rainforest, called the Trans Iriri highway. But in fact, he states that that highway has no real existence, because the illegal loggers cooperate with some people, unofficially armed, to secure and help them make the traffic easier. Therefore, the practice became opened and is not secret for the local population. Next, he underlines the fact that in spite of all strategies undertaken by the government through the satellite control and detection and deployment of security force for patrol in these areas, the traffic of illegal logging still has a lower rate of decreasing and the loggers are always continuing to do their practices. For this reason, some local in habitants from the areas are saying that there are no rules to obey in the region. In the end, some environmentalist has suggested, in order to decrease this practice, a daily systematic control by the government's force security is needed.

This problem of illegal logging in every big forest will not cease or stop automatically. But if all the international community can try to solve the problem by involving themselves in creating an international commission for the environment conservation with some new rules, that would be really interesting, and the illegal practices of logging may decrease, the forest may get secure and the rules may be respected.

First, worldwide we see how some big forests are being deforested by people who want to use them illegally. In our recent days, the establishment of a particular commission for conserving only big and significant forest can be a way of decreasing this practice of illegal logging. To illustrate, this way would include all the practitioners of illegal logging such as individuals, industries, and some countries, and involving them in a new perspective of environment conservation in ensuring their personal market but making them associated with the system of stopping cutting trees in disorderly ways. In fact the application and approach can encounter some difficulties, but success depends on negotiating personally with all leaders who are machinating those practices in every area of the world to find the common points for solving the problems such as how to secure the environment, to establish news laws ,and how to manage the commission with transparency and justice.

Secondly, the presence of a security group might be guaranteed, because as all have participated in such decisions or resolutions, the non-participants may be in difficulties because the affair has required the involvement of every logger, illegal or not, who has tried to settle some recommendations and headlines for the security of the forest. for example, a mixture of international police or special security group to control all the illegal areas where the logging are being made would be useful. In addition, those groups of security should be well equipped with materials to deal with all the illegal loggers. They can use guns, detection appliances, mobile phones for intercommunications, and vehicles for driving at all times around the forest to prevent the practice.

Next, if they put together ideas for such positive outcome or for interest of parties, it is sure that all those directives will be taken for granted. One small example is if they try to break the rules made by themselves, also all their particular interest and benefit will probably go down, as they had signed before as one commission to make logging legal by setting some rules. As a result, they are required to respect all that is recommend; if not perhaps others could be suspended or sanctioned as the issue became international, thus there are some limits and restrictions.

In conclusion, establishing a special international organization only for looking after the biggest forest that undergoes illegal logging might be another step to make the percentage of illegal logging down, to have a general view about the control of the forest for its security and to help people working legally under the respect of the principles which are needed for protecting and using the forest.

References

Phillips, T. (2007, April 21). Invisible but too real: the illegal roads speeding destruction of the rainforest: Despite a crackdown, illicit logging is on the rise in lawless areas of the Amazon. The Guardian International, p.25. Retrieved October 28, 2007, from Lexis-nexis