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World Service,14 Nov 1991,28 mins

Macushi Indians

The Amazon Watershed

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The story of a vast military project opening up the northern frontier and how timber cutting is becoming the main cause of destruction; tracing illegally logged tropical hardwoods to British markets. Dr Liz Allen, Glasgow University Fiona Watson, Survival Simon Counsell, Friends of the Earth Terence Mallinson, Timber Trade Federation This is a programme from the BBC World Service Archive and was originally broadcast in 1991.

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