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Forests shrink; 70 percent less 1 km from edge

2015-03-20 19:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Farms, roads and towns are fast slicing up the world's wilderness, leaving 70 percent of the world's remaining forested land less than one km (half a mile) from a forest edge, a U.S.-led study showed on Friday. The report, by two dozen researchers on five continents and using data the covers the past 35 years, said a rising human population was putting more pressure on forest animals and plants, which suffer greater risk of extinction as their habitats become fragmented. "We found the results...

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