Illegal logging

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Illegal logging is logging in national parks and other "protected areas" without government authorization, or where such authorization was obtained by bribery. Illegally logged timber is often transhipped through other countries to avoid checks and controls.

The term is sometimes used by environmentalists to describe logging operations that government agencies have authorized, on the grounds that the decision-making officials represent industry interests above all else.

The following pictures are examples of illegal logging in Belize:

Fresh Cut Lumber

Loggers Camp

Lumber Refuse