The exploitation of natural resources started to emerge in the 19th century as natural resource extraction developed.

Logging and geothermal resource extraction were still possible impacts to the area.

The economy rests on resource extraction, subsistence, and government spending.

Portions of the area have been zoned for natural resource extraction.

As the lumber business ran down, the area became linked to other resource extraction.

Contrary to claim, the West's economy is no longer based on wholesale resource extraction.

Both groups engaged in oil 'bunkering' and other illegal forms of local resource extraction.

Maori visited for resource extraction, but they did not live there.

They see it as simply not sustainable (in terms of the resource extraction, transportation, and communication systems necessary for any global economic system).

Economic development during the first 50 years of colonial rule in Congo centered on natural resource extraction.