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Shrinking Amazon forests may lose thousands of trees species

2015-11-20 20:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: A first-of-its-kind examination of the Amazon's trees found that as many as half the species may be threatened with extinction or heading that way because of massive deforestation. Among the more than 5,000 tree species in deep trouble: the ones that produce Brazil nuts and mahogany. An international team of 158 scientists found that depending on the degree to which deforestation comes under control in the next 35 years, between 36 and 57 percent of the 16,000 tree species in the tropical rainforest...

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