Your proposal is: to undertake selective logging at Makiling reserve.
Selective Logging – Only certain trees (e.g. just the older or inferior ones) are cut down – most trees in the area are left standing. This causes less damage as the trees that remain provide soil cover, avoiding leaching of nutrients and soil erosion and protecting the nutrient cycle. Selective logging allows young trees a guaranteed life span and the forest will regain full maturity after around 30-50 years. This maintains the health of the forest and ensures it can be used by future generations.
In some areas, horse logging is used which involves horses dragging the felled trees out of the rainforest which is more environmentally friendly than using heavy machinery. Helicopter logging is also an alternative to using heavy machinery to extract timber. This occurs in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
