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Canada, Russia, Brazil lead world old-growth forest loss

2014-09-05 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Every day, the world loses about 50,000 hectares of forest to agricultural clearing, road development, and other human activities, constricting true wilderness into smaller and smaller areas along with the species that inhabit them. New analysis and maps released this week show these last vestiges are disappearing at a quick pace, with more than 104 million hectares degraded from 2000 to 2013. Intact Forest Landscapes (IFLs) are areas that are large and pristine enough so that they still contain...

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