week 8

I am talking about poachers in madagascar. they arrive at villages near the forests and give them money/rice in exchange for rare rosewood trees. This wouldn't have happened as tourists always come to these villages and the villagers get plenty of money. But the change of goverment scared away most tourists. Rosewood trees take 100 years to reach maturity and cutting this down is very unsustainable. In 2009, 100,000 of these trees were cut down. This is a huge number. I really hope that poachers would stop influenecing the local villagers and that people would stop cutting down trees.