Morocco Timber Mafia Threatens Water Supply By Feeling Cedars – Setting Up A Natural Disaster?

11:01 am in Business & Politics, deforestation, morocco, natural disasters, Travel & Nature by TreeHugger

cedar bough photo photo: ankakay/Creative Commons Echoes of what contributed to catastrophic flooding in Pakistan last summer: Illegal logging by a timber mafia ("a cedar mafia, an organized mafia") is felling so many of Morocco's iconic cedar trees that the nation's water supply is threatened due to erosion....Read the full story on TreeHugger