Current logging practices threaten hundreds of thousands of trees in south China, the official China Daily reported Thursday.
Fears were raised after the Beijing News reported a subsidiary of paper and pulp giant Asia Pulp & Paper Co, known as APP, was involved in a mass logging of roadside trees along thousands of miles of road in South China's Hainan Province, the paper said.
If the current trend continues and is supported and promoted by local governments, hundreds of thousands of trees along nearly 12,000 miles of road will be cut down, the China Daily said. In place of the original trees, more economic varieties such as eucalyptus, are being planted.
Eucalyptus trees provide the raw material for the Jinhai Pulp Factory, an APP subsidiary that started operating in January and can produce 600,000 tons of pulp a year.
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