Smallholder clearing found to be dominant reason for forest loss in the Congo Basin
Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 08:50
in Earth & Climate
A team of researchers from the University of Maryland and the State University of New York has found that smallholder clearing is the dominant driver of forest loss in the Congo Basin. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes the techniques they used to assess forest loss in the area over the period from 2000 to 2014 and what they found.