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Are we losing primary forests in the Congo Basin?
2013-08-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environ Research: The researchers assessed primary-forest changes at the national scale and modelled potential changes assuming that population growth, logging activity and maintenance infrastructure will remain the same. The analysis was based on mid-resolution satellite imagery and results of forest cover/change detection assessment of intact forest landscapes an approach that allowed the team to analyse intact and non-intact or degraded primary forests separately. The results show that almost 1% of primary forests...
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