So does the fact that a logged forest can be much less permanent than a mahogany table.

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Despite being a commercial forest that is sustainably logged for wood, the Dermakot Forest Reserve in Sabah, which is an area of approximately 550km square kilometres, holds all five wild Bornean cat species.

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Greens are suspicious of any efforts to remove trees from national forests not least because the Forest Service has often allowed perfectly healthy trees to be logged in the guise of aiding forest health.

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If it were to reduce carbon emissions from what they would have been, the forest would have been logged without the intervention.

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