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A paradise being lost: Peru's most important forests felled for timber, crops, roads, mining

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Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2014-08-13

In 1988, when British environmentalist Norman Myers first described the concept of a “biodiversity hotspot” - an area with at least 0.5 percent or 1,500 endemic plants that has lost 70 percent of its primary vegetation - he could have been painting a picture of the highly threatened Peruvian Andes mountain range. Today, the Andes are an immediate and looming portent of the fate of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.

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http://news.mongabay.com/2014/0812-gfrn-watsa-peru.html