No timber after 2025: report

  • 26/03/2001

There would be no timber left for industrial use for 40 years after 2025 when 75 per cent of the forested area in the NWFP (Pakistan) would vanish, reveals the Provincial Forest Resource Inventory (PFRI) - the forest department's well- kept secret. The PFRI, conducted by a German consortium, reveals that if the unabated over-exploitation of timber continues at the current pace, the existing stocks of standing trees would vanish by the year 2025, leaving no timber for industrial purposes for 40 years hence, until young plants - planted in the mid 1980s - mature in 2065.