Climate News Network: Toucans and other birds helped to reveal the impact of forest damage.
Ensuring tropical forests are protected from human intrusion is vital if they are to preserve the many creatures that inhabit them, researchers say. It is not enough just to conserve forest. It may be just as important not to disturb any of it. New research suggests that selective logging, hunting and other kinds of damage can do serious harm to the biodiversity within the remaining forest.
Jos Barlow, an ecologist at the...