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  • Title: The perils of payoff: corruption as a threat to global biodiversity.
    Author: Laurance WF.
    Journal: Trends Ecol Evol; 2004 Aug; 19(8):399-401. PubMed ID: 16701292.
    Abstract:
    Corruption is a worldwide phenomenon, particularly in many developing countries, which contain a large proportion of global biodiversity. Most alarming, from a biodiversity-conservation perspective, is the frequent corruption of government officials who manage valuable natural resources, such as timber, oil and precious minerals. A recent study by Joyotee Smith and colleagues describes rampant corruption in the timber industry of Indonesia, and shifts in the prevalence of different types of corruption as the country has become destabilized politically. By placing corruption into a conceptual framework, Smith et al. provide important insights into how developing nations and their natural resources can be besieged by corruption.
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