Looming Tropical Disaster Needs Urgent Action, According To New Report

Thursday, June 26, 2008 - 09:28 in Biology & Nature

A major review shows that the world is losing the battle over tropical habitat loss with potentially disastrous implications for biodiversity and human well-being. Tropical forests support more than 60% of all known species. But up to 15 million hectares of tropical rainforest are being lost every year and species are being lost at a rate of up to 10,000 times higher than would happen randomly without humans present.

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