Rapa nui kinda got dissed here, for 'cutting the trees down' ... initially I tended to think it was post flood survival stuff, you know, centuries or millennia after the massive statues, bird-men depictions, and platforms were made, with difficult living conditions - anyway.
Over-logging indeed happened there. Question is by who...perhaps I should join the 'home' forum and mention this?
http://aboriginalrights.suite101.com/ar ... f_rapa_nui " From Genocide to Ecocide: The Rape of Rapa Nui" is the title. author: Benny Peiser
http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/E ... Peiser.pdf [link no longer valid]
2012.8.30: update link #1:
http://tinyurl.com/9tyeww4