It is at least worth noting, however, that forest people are not always the tree-huggers they are cracked up to be.

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Sino-Forest is a Wholly-Owned Foreign Enterprise that harvests, processes, and sells wood from leased or owned tree plantations in various Chinese provinces.

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The 3km and 9km Circles in a Forest trails explore the refreshing green environment, passing 3m-high tree ferns, old-growth trees, strange fungi and babbling brooks.

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Local residents live on agriculture and forest industries, such as rice, potato, vegetables, bamboo and tea-tree oil cultivation.

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That led to color-coded paths, a Magic Forest in the main lobby and a wishing tree where family members can write their hopes for hospitalized children.

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One picture from that Greenpeace link in particular says it all: a region of tropical Sumatran forest cleared with as much wide-scale devastation as if a tsunami had taken out every last tree.

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Temperate-forest fires burn hot and fast, and sometimes all the way up to the crown of a tree.

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"We are working on four small scale forest projects with local community groups to grow and plant over 1, 000, 000 trees to re-store the tree cover in an area now vulnerable to landslides, " he added.

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