You believe that developing the logging industry will create the money needed to buy essentials such as petrol, medicine, manufactured goods, etc and to pay off debts to foreign banks. It will provide work for local people and help develop a more advanced economy.

You can help Togo by providing roads, employment and electricity for local people. Your company will produce cheap goods for export which will help earn the country money. You need to expand your logging operations and this project will be particularly lucrative.

You believe the amount of logging which is proposed will lead to a huge loss of plant and animal species. Many medicines depend on extracts from plants found in rain forests. There are also plants and trees which have potential as fruit and vegetable crops. Logging should be controlled to minimise the impact on local wildlife and visitors such as the swallow who depend on the insect life of the forest.

The logging company will give us work, they will build us a new school, bring water supplies and electricity to our homes and a new road.

We will lose our homes and traditional hunting methods which protect both the forest and our people. We will be shifted to new areas and there is no guarantee of work or benefits from the wealth the government will gain from selling our forest.