IF ALL goes according to plan, the chainsaws will start buzzing in Liberia's forests later this month for the first time since the United Nations imposed a ban on trade in the country's logs in 2003.
If Brazil gets more enthusiastic about foreigners subscribing to funds to save the forest, these might gradually tip the scales against the chainsaws.
Loggers relied on axes, handsaws and draft animals before the advent of steam engines and gas-powered vehicles, along with chainsaws and harvesting machines such as the feller-buncher.
It will continue, they say, to light bonfires that shorten its neighbours’ lives, having its cake of REDD money, even as its chainsaws eat the rainforest.
One supporter recently had two chainsaws stolen in a parking lot, and he said it would never have happened had he had his gun handy.
The fundamental state of chainsaws in forestry production and some information about management and safety inspection of chainsaw products are introduced.
In June he pushed for the spin-off of Husqvarna, a maker of chainsaws and other outdoor equipment, from Electrolux.
The rest of the tribe, explained the chief, had been killed during a raid by men with guns and chainsaws.
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