Dear George, I am sure that you are a sensible man, the report in your program 30/8/08 about Darfur mentioned how China is abusing human right by supporting the Sudanese government just for oil. What about Iraq and what the US is doing there, isn't it for oil as well? I am not defending China or the Sudanese government, however, I do not want to see double standards applied here. Thanks.

Logging should be done in a sustainable way, but I find it interesting how many people think that rainforests produce most of the worlds oxygen. Over half of the worlds oxygen comes from the ocean via phytoplankton.

I really enjoyed watching George flounder in his interview with Cardinal Wilfred Napier. Even when Negus jumped from topic to topic trying to score cheap points Wilfred Napier had his measure in all areas and was far to intelligent. Do your research George and next time try to find a bunny that makes you look like you have some form of credibility.

I am furious. What is it going to take for the world to put an end to this exploitation of such a valuable resource??!! Nothing i say on this forum is going to change anything, or at least not that i can see. BUT IT SHOULD! I strongly reinforce Bre Taylor's comments as well. The Amazon is in urgent trouble and has been for decades! So now its even more serious. In typical Western fashion, we will intervene when its too late. But thats not good enough. Im 19 years old and i want to have kids who can still breathe fresh air. I beg the world the stop this ignorance regarding such a critical ecosystem.

Would it not be possible for all countries of the world to stop the destruction of all rainforests and to try to increase their size.Trees are the lungs of the planet and the rainforests are the biggest.Wouldn't it be better to do this first rather than adopting carbon trading first? If the Amazon rainforest was its original size it would 'gobble up' much of the carbon now going into the atmosphere,thereby reducing the need for expensive controls.

Amazon's illegal logging popped a big question to us: As consumers in developed country what can we help? Also, what shall EU, G8, UN

I think if the EU

This problem isn't just up to international bodies doing enough it is also the responsibility of the Brazilian governments especially in the 5 states that make up the Amazon region. I lived in the state of Rondonia for 11 years and if the govenment hadn't tried to find a quick solution in dealing with the poor and homeless by offering them land in this region back in the late 80's early 90's enticing people to go and start farming in a forest land.As we know this isn't farming soil. Consequently once these poor people got there and realised the only way to survive was the logging industry. Who can blame them. What we have to do is find other ways to educate them to use the forest in an envionmentally friendly way and there are NGO's trying to do that. And what stops them is the continual corruption of the state governments in the region.Who are all connected to the drug trade. So it is a war that is going on every day.People have been loosing their lives over this battle for almost 3 decades.Yes we have to think of the survival of these families if they can't continue to make a living from the logging. We can't just stop without an alternative. It's easy to say but requires a lot of time, education and support.