Ries van Wendel de Joode: Lumberjacking in Ghana

  1. Posted on Thursday 11 May 2006 - 16:33
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    Ries van Wendel de Joode: ' With the sound of breaking twigs the essia falls down. The ground shakes when the tree hits the ground. With a chainsaw the twigs are cut of the tree.
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     When the lumberjacker is done the man gives his chainsaw to his assistent, because in Ghana a lumberjacker never transports his chainsaw himself.

    Employees of the Swiss Lumber Company (part of the lumber yard Wijma from Kampen) chop a forest 200 km away from the seaport Takoradi. The Netherlands is one of the biggest hardwood importers in the world".

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