Day 242 - 29 Apr 96 - Page 08

     
     1        article -- may be if I read out the next statement first.
     2        If you go to the next statement, I will read that out.  It
     3        is the one dated  -----
     4
     5   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Wait a minute.  The next one is 20th February
     6        1996.
     7
     8   MR. MORRIS:  That is correct.
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you have that there?
    11        A.  No, that is not there in the file.
    12
    13   Q.   What I have is that short statement and pinned to it I have
    14        what has been called a CEDI article, or part of it.  It
    15        looks like this and it has some maps on it.
    16
    17   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Ms. Steel has a copy of that.  Perhaps that
    20        could be punched and put in the bundle behind
         Dr. Carriere's article.  Then I have put the area handbook
    22        of Costa Rica behind that.
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  Right.  (Handed).
    25
    26   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you mind putting that in the ringbinder?
    27        A.  And the area handbook as well?
    28
    29   Q.   Yes, that is right, in that order, please.  Would you like
    30        to put them in?
    31        A.  Yes.
    32
    33   Q.   Thank you.
    34
    35   MR. MORRIS:  February 20th, 1996.  Supplementary statement:
    36
    37        "To clarify my previous statements, I wish to state the
    38        following concerning the pace of deforestation in the
    39        province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica, over the past century.
    40
         "Only the central part of Guanacaste, indicated on the map
    42        by arrow No. 2" -- that is the map behind this document
    43         -- "was deforested between 50 and 100 years ago and is
    44        regarded as traditional cattle country.  The rest of the
    45        region was deforested after 1940.
    46
    47        The southern part of Guanacaste, indicated by arrow No. 3,
    48        was deforested between 1940 and 1961; and the northern
    49        part, indicated by arrow No. 1, was deforested between 1961
    50        and 1983. 
    51 
    52        While I am not in a position to put a percentage figure on 
    53        the amount of post-1940 deforestation which was due to
    54        cattle expansion, there is no doubt that some of this later
    55        deforestation in the region was due to conversion of forest
    56        to pasture.  At any rate, it would certainly be incorrect
    57        to state that all beef purchased from Guanacaste
    58        necessarily comes from traditional cattle country.  Some of
    59        it, especially if it comes from the northern part of the
    60        region, may have come from pasture land that was deforested