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In the Amazon, forest degradation is outpacing full deforestation – MENAFN.COM
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has increased abruptly in the past two years, after having been on a downward trajectory for more than a decade. With the country’s president Jair Bolsonaro notoriously enthusiastic about expanding into the rainforest, ne…
(MENAFN – The Conversation) Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has increased abruptly in the past two years, after having been on a downward trajectory for more than a decade. With the country’s president Jair Bolsonaro notoriously enthusiastic about expanding into the rainforest, new deforestation data regularly makes global headlines .
But what fewer people realise is that even forests that have not been cleared, or fully ‘deforested’, are rarely untouched. Indeed, just 20% of the world’s…
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