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2009 Rio Conventions Calendar

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Title: February
Description: Mountain environments directly support more than a fifth of the world’s people who live within mountain regions and provide freshwater for more than half of humanity. These regions typically include forest ecosystems in the lower to medium high altitudes, which provide a range of services to mountain communities and to people in lowland areas. Key for maintaining biodiversity, these forest ecosystems are threatened by the expansion of agriculture and unsustainable methods of timber harvesting, such as clear cutting and the establishment of forest monocultures.
Year: 2009
Photographer: Andy Rouse
Date: 2009-02-01
February
 
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