Few drug companies have remained unscathed after a patent expiration of this magnitude, but Forest stands a better chance of weathering the storm than most.
To make matters worse, though, he had taken money from Forest Laboratories but did not disclose this fact.
The UN-REDD Programme would have welcomed the chance to respond to the aforementioned statement during the interview we did with The Economist for this special issue, but no questions related to the Mau forest or the Ogiek community were raised at that time.
But this being India, no one seems to care, including the forest ranger who is directing the queue of tourist-filled trucks waiting to view the pride.
"The funding was removed during the change in government but we decided to use our charity at Nottingham Forest to sustain this fantastic facility, " Forest community director Graham Moran said.
The woodcutters and gold prospectors may be long gone, but travellers can still relive this fascinating historic era through a series of forest walking trails that evoke the vanished world of the woodcutters, winding beneath the canopy along rust-coloured streams dappled with sun and shadow.
In Indonesia this would mean putting palm-oil plantations not on forest land but on degraded land, of which it has perhaps 40m hectares available.
This result can provide a stunningly detailed view of the genome, but this letter-by-letter approach may also sometimes result in scientists missing the forest for the trees.
Mr Garson said the commission carried out hundreds of forest operations and harvested about 700, 000 tonnes of timber every year, but this was the first pollution incident resulting from harvesting operations for more than 10 years.
For Lorraine, protecting this last bit of forest is crucial, not only for the residents of Martissant, but for the entire city.
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