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The thinning fabric of Earth’s forest cover (commentary)

Source
Mongabay (India)

Publication Date
2019-09-25

Forests don’t have it easy. Even when they escape being cleared for farmland, pastures, or cities, many of them are battered by a variety of other human pressures. Damage to forests (often termed degradation) is by definition less severe in a given location than outright deforestation, but it affects much larger areas — and so, in aggregate, may be just as big a problem for the global environment.

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https://news.mongabay.com/2019/09/the-thinning-fabric-of-earths-forest-cover-commentary/