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Illegal tropical deforestation driven globally by agro-conversion
2014-09-11 23:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Nearly 50 percent of tropical deforestation to make room for commercial agriculture between 2000 and 2012 was done so illegally. Thats a key finding of a report published by the U.S.-based nonprofit organization Forest Trends looking at the global tide of tropical forest agro-conversion. I dont think there was sufficient appreciation for the scale of this problem, said lead author Sam Lawson. The publication systematically documents abuses of national and international laws that resulted...
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