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Illegal tropical deforestation driven globally by “agro-conversion”

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Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2014-09-12

Nearly 50 percent of tropical deforestation to make room for commercial agriculture between 2000 and 2012 was done so illegally. That’s a key finding of a report published by the U.S.-based nonprofit organization Forest Trends looking at the global tide of tropical forest “agro-conversion.”

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