Thousands of miles of planned Asian roads threaten the heart of tiger habitat

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 14:50 in Biology & Nature

Nearly 15,000 miles of new Asian roads will be built in tiger habitat by mid-century, deepening the big cat’s extinction risk and highlighting the need for bold new conservation measures now, according to a new study. University of Michigan conservation ecologist Neil Carter and his colleagues used a recently developed global roads dataset to calculate […]

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