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On track to 'go beyond the critical point': Sri Lanka still losing forests at rapid clip

Source
Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2014-07-16

During the latter half of the war, between 1990 and 2005, Sri Lanka suffered one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world as government soldiers burned vast tracts to flush rebels out of their forest strongholds.As a result, the country lost about 35 percent of its old growth forest and almost 18 percent of its total forest cover.

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