Critics blast new forest plan
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08/02/2001
With the ink barely dried on the page, a recently unveiled plan of the Costa Rica's Environment Ministry to regulate the country's prized forest areas has already come under fire by irate environmentalists, who claim the document is just an extension of the government's moneymaking agenda. The 68-page document spells out ways in which the country's forests must be identified in order to determine which lands should be protected, which should be open to logging and which need reforestation or natural regeneration after having been overexploited.