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Greater Mekong countries 'lost one-third of forest cover in 40 years'

2013-05-02 11:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Five Asian countries have lost nearly one-third of their forests in the last 35 years and could be left with little more than 10-20% of their original cover by 2030 with devastating effects on wildlife and humans, a new report suggests. Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam have lost nearly 40m hectares (ha) of forest cover since 1980 but have retained about 98m ha of natural forest, just over half of the region's land area. Using satellite data, the WWF researchers calculated that...

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