As well as destabilizing human communities, logging also threatens to decimate an ecosystem that is critical for the survival of wildlife including forest elephants and endangered apes such as gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos.
There is already so little old-growth forest left that it threatens the long-term survival of many plant and animal species, so continuing to log such forests is deeply irresponsible.
Selective logging and conversion of rain forest habitat to agricultural land are the greatest threats to the survival of the white-collared lemur, together with hunting, according to the IUCN website.