Timber industry in jeopardy

Sep 30, 1999
By Blake Lambert

RIGA - Latvia's leading export industry needs to adopt management standards or else it will lose its market share, according to a member of the country's World Wildlife Fund.Timber, or wood and wood products, comprised almost 40 percent of Latvia's exports in the first half of 1999, worth more than 195 million lats ($336.2 million)."If we don't catch the train, we'll be pushed out of the market sooner or later," said Edgars Stanga, who handles public relations for the WWF.Standards alone will no ...

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