The respondents who did not consider the carpentry operation as a forest threat

were asked for their reasons. Most of the responses (54%) centered on the fact that timber

was only used for self-consumption. Others did not consider the operation a threat to the

forest because they were not selling timber to loggers (14%), they are only cutting a few

trees (4%), or because they have protection practices in place to prevent forest impacts

(2%). These practices referred to protection of areas where medicinal plants were

abundant. The use of timber only for self-consumption as a forest safeguard was

mentioned more often in the most traditional village, Tinkareni (87%), less mentioned in

Camantavishi (57%), and the least mentioned in Yoyato (17%), the village most

integrated to market. Not selling timber to loggers was mentioned by 13% in Tinkareni,

and 29% in Camantavishi. In Yoyato, the only village where they had sold some timber

to loggers, selling timber was not mentioned as a forest threat (Figure 3-10).



 100

 S8 timber only for
 60 selfconsumption
 | 0 l [ only cut few trees
 T 40
 50 1E not selling to loggers
 20 -E protection practices


 Yoyato Camantavishi Tinkareni TOTAL
 n=18 n=14 n=8 n=40
 villages


Figure 3-10 Villagers reasons why the carpentry operation is not a forest threat.


 The respondents who did consider the carpentry operation as a forest threat were

also queried about their rationale. In Yoyato, 33% of the respondents mentioned that the

carpentry operation could lead to tree depletion, 22% said that cutting trees may result in