The sarawak forest is blessed with flora which can be used to made topnotch woodwork and ever since the quality of the wood has be noticed, the loggers have not stopped their hunger. Once the giant trees were removed and the canopy opened, the remaining plant life, bursting towards the sunlight, undergoes some rapid growth which in places has created bushy secondary forest. (BBChome, 2008) Game is harder to spot and track, plants useful to the Penan are less plentiful and vital sago palms less abundant. The removal of large fruiting trees takes away a food source for the Penan and the game (BBChome, 2008) . At the same time logging roads give hunting access to non-Penan hunters. The companies carrying out selective logging in Sarawak use bulldozers to clear tracks through the forest and along steep ridges so that specific tree species can be cut and extracted (BBChome, 2008) . . It's a bitter irony that whilst building tracks along ridges is seen as good logging practice in the rest of the world, in Sarawak it destroys a lot of sago palm, a staple of the Penan. The trails formed also erode the soil removing the growth factor of the forest.
As Sarawak's natural forests become less productive, the government assigned large area for acacia and palm oil plantation to form an economic wealth factor for the country .Acacia trees can grow 15m in seven years and can re-grow from stumps, so they are very profitable over the long term. This can be seen as deliberate strategy by the government of Sarawak to start their own cultivation by destroying the less economically valuable plant and planting plant that would reap higher income
Sarawak's timber industry is worth around £1 billion a year. Some logging in Sarawak has always been run by commercial imperatives and profit maximization in order to enable the development that will turn Malaysia into a first world country by 2020
As Sarawak's natural forests become less productive, the government assigned large area for acacia and palm oil plantation to form an economic wealth factor for the country .Acacia trees can grow 15m in seven years and can re-grow from stumps, so they are very profitable over the long term. This can be seen as deliberate strategy by the government of Sarawak to start their own cultivation by destroying the less economically valuable plant and planting plant that would reap higher income
Sarawak's timber industry is worth around £1 billion a year. Some logging in Sarawak has always been run by commercial imperatives and profit maximization in order to enable the development that will turn Malaysia into a first world country by 2020
This shows that the government of sarawak has only a profit motive ideology as the welfare of the Penan tribes are not been look after upon by even their own government properly
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