Since 2008, Chinese logging company Bai Shan Lin has exported 35 832 cubic metres of logs while since 2012, Indian logging company Vaitarna Holdings Private Inc (VHPI) has exported 15 190 cubic metres of logs, according to data supplied yesterday by the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC).
As a measure of comparison, log exports for the first half of this year amounted to 54 376 cubic metres compared to 30 356 cubic metres for the same period last year.
Over the period of their operations, the two companies also committed infractions, which according to the