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The indigenous people who live in the Malaysian rain forest and are dependent on it for every aspect of their lives are now pitted against state and federal authorities, who have a huge financial stake in the forests. Logging and politics are inextricably intertwined; new laws are created to override the old protections. Some, including the conservative International Timber Trade Organization, (ITTO), warn that the whole matter will soon be moot because logging will transform Malaysia's rain forest into a veritable wasteland by the end of this decade