Since the decline of the local logging industry, tourism is all that's left for the elephants.

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One hardwood floor maker even wrote a counter book called The Truax that boasted about how friendly the logging industry is.

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But by the early 1900s, the bottom of the river had been scraped and flattened to allow for the logging industry to float timber downstream.

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Urging the World Bank to take fresh action to clean up the logging industry, Greenpeace senior forest campaigner Belinda Fletcher said it was "crunch time" for the DRC's rainforest.

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In a more pacific mode, elephants were employed across South Asia and Indo-China in the logging industry, felling and carrying and transporting teak, where they were trained and superintended by elephant boys, or mahouts, who established a lifelong relationship with their animals.

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In December, Greenpeace pulled the trigger, claiming it had proof from GPS-tagged video and pictures that one of the coalition industry members, Resolute Forest Products, was building logging roads in areas forbidden by the agreement.

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In 1997, back in the southern Toledo District, a local grassroots campaign against illegal logging, fishing and poaching also eventually became a part of the ecotourism industry.

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Logging has increased by 60% in the state since the 1980s, when the timber industry moved its operations over from the Pacific north-west in order to avoid continual warfare over old-growth forests and spotted owls.

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We then assume that any jobs saved or created in a particular industrial sector (for example, mining and logging) are distributed across states in the same way as are existing jobs in that sector. 3 Georgia has only 1.4 percent of national employment in mining and logging, so is assumed to receive only 1.4 percent of employment effects in that industry.

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The president may replace Tourism Secretary Gemma Cruz Araneta, who has apparently failed to rev up her industry, and Environment and Natural Resources' Antonio Cerilles, who has been criticized for favoring selective logging.

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