je.st
news
80% of rainforests in Malaysian Borneo logged
2013-07-17 23:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: 80 percent of the rainforests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging, finds a comprehensive study that offers the first assessment of the spread of industrial logging and logging roads across areas that were considered some of Earth's wildest lands less than 30 years ago. The research, conducted by a team of scientists from the University of Tasmania, University of Papua New Guinea, and the Carnegie Institution for Science, is based on analysis of satellite data using Carnegie...
Tags: logged
malaysian
borneo
rainforests
Category:Electronics and Electrical