Minister of Natural Re-sources and the Environment, Robert Persaud has rejected as “flawed” an analysis by forester John Palmer that purpleheart in Guyana’s forests is being unsustainably managed saying that concessionaires are only achieving about 31% of annual sustainable production.
“Palmer’s analysis is flawed because he presents a comparison of the volume of purpleheart extracted and exported, with the volume of logs extracted per year; he really should be