"The most critical single requirement for the successful application of reduced impact logging (RIL) on a wide scale in tropical forests is the availability of skilled logging personnel at all levels. The fact that almost no tropical countries presently offer such training effectively dooms their forests to poor logging practices." This stark observation was made by Dennis Dykstra in a key presentation made at the 2001 International Conference on the Application of Reduced Impact Logging to Advance Sustainable Forest Management in Kuching, Malaysia. Others have maintained that strong political commitment is needed first and foremost before we can see substantial improvements in forest harvesting. Notwithstanding the different views on what is most urgently required, there is broad agreement that currently the workforce involved in forest harvesting is inadequately prepared to make the changes essential for reaching the elusive goal of sustainable forest management.
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