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30% Borneo rainforests destroyed since 1973
2014-07-16 23:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: More than 30 percent of Borneo's rainforests have been destroyed over the past forty years due to fires, industrial logging, and the spread of plantations, finds a new study that provides the most comprehensive analysis of the island's forest cover to date. The research, published in the open-access journal PLOS ONE, shows that just over a quarter of Borneo's lowland forests remain intact. The study, which involved an international team of scientists led by David Gaveau and Erik Meijaard, is based...
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