Brazil opens central Amazon to logging

I read this article, "Brazil openz central Amazon to logging" in International Herald Tribune (Jan 15, 2007). It said that the Brazilian gobernment plan to set to go into effect this year will bring large-scale logging deep into the heart of the Amazon rain forest for the first time. I'm writing a report about environmental problem in another class and found this article. I was a little shocked and am worry about the rain forest. I don't want it to be destroied and if it gets badly damaged it sure will affect the earths environment and encourage grobal warming. I understand that it's a problem to live for the people in Brazil, and we Japanese are the ones that are buying the woods from other countries eventhough we have lots of trees inside our country. We say we should save the green, and it means green IN JAPAN, and we keep on using woods from oversea. We need to realize this point and reconcider about the environmental issues.