Germany. 2003. German. English Voice Over. 25:30 min
Director: Inge Altemeier

While the world's attention has been captured by Brazil's rain forest destruction, precious tropical timber is being hacked out of Sumatra, Indonesia's largest island.

Synopsis: The logging of Indonesia's rain forest is out of control. While the world's attention has been captured by Brazil's rain forest destruction, precious tropical timber is being hacked out of Sumatra, Indonesia's largest island, and habitat of the last Sumatra tiger. Deforestation destroys the rain
forest and all its potential value. Rain forests provide substantial amounts of oxygen on earth; contain as-yet undiscovered species of animals, and many plants, which may hold the cure for diseases that plague mankind. But these uses for the bounty of the rain forest apparently pale in comparison to the European market's needs for these exotic trees, used to make parquet floors, terraces and plywood.