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     1        A.  Yes, on many occasions both in this country and abroad
     2
     3   Q.   Could I ask you to get pink volume 16, and this is the last
     4        matter that we are going to deal with.  If you turn to tab
     5        9, page 45, which is a news release from the World Wildlife
     6        Fund in October 1982 entitled "The Hamburger Connection".
     7        In the first paragraph there, they refer to rainforests.
     8        In the second paragraph there is a reference to tropical
     9        forests and in the subsequent paragraphs there are various
    10        references to tropical forests.
    11
    12        Do you know at the time, the World Wildlife Fund were they
    13        specifically only concerned with rainforests or were they
    14        concerned with all tropical forests?
    15        A.  No, the World Wildlife Fund were, in the same way that
    16        governments and forestry agencies and scientific
    17        institutions were concerned, were concerned with the
    18        degradation and deforestation of all tropical forest types,
    19        and I would suggest that this is another example of where
    20        the words "rainforests" and "tropical forests" are used
    21        interchangeably.
    22
    23   Q.   Thank you very much.
    24
    25   MR. MORRIS:  No further questions.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Thank you.
    28
    29                   Cross-Examined by MR. RAMPTON QC
    30
    31   MR. RAMPTON:  I was not going to ask you any questions,
    32        Mr. Secrett, but we have been on a venture which was not
    33        foreshadowed in your statement, so I am going to ask you
    34        about Costa Rica if I may.
    35
    36        Do you have that Sader and Joyce black and white, I do not
    37        call it a map, diagram?
    38        A.  I do.
    39
    40   Q.   Do you see the one for 1961?
    41        A.  I do, yes.
    42
    43   Q.   If you refer to the coloured map which is in front of you,
    44        yes?
    45        A.  Yes.
    46
    47   Q.   It is not exactly an exercise because there is not a scale
    48        on the Sader and Joyce map, but do you agree with me that,
    49        roughly speaking, looking at the western or pacific edge of
    50        the country, before one gets to the peninsula de Ossa, or 
    51        the Gulf e Dulcia, there is a band of white tailing off 
    52        into a spike as one goes down the coast towards the Ossa 
    53        Peninsula.  Do you see that?
    54        A.  Yes.
    55
    56   Q.   If you look at the coloured map, do you agree that the
    57        spike or end of that tapering off is, roughly speaking,
    58        where Dominical is to be found on the map, the coloured
    59        map?
    60        A.  It would appear so from the diagram.

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