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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"tropical forest loss"”.
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China's Forest Product Imports and the Impacts on Tropical Forests
China's forest product imports have surged over the past two decades, fueled by robust economic growth and an inadequate domestic timber supply. In 2017, China implemented a complete logging ban in its natural forests, further widening the domestic timber supply gap. Many observers highlight the …
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Using real-time forest loss alerts and global deforestation maps to assess the effectiveness of Africa's tropical protected areas
Tropical rainforests harbor a significant portion of the world's remaining biodiversity. Having undergone rapid changes in forest cover over the last two decades, a large amount of irreplaceable biodiversity has been lost. The establishment of protected areas has been a key strategy to hinder the …
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Measuring tropical forest disturbance and regrowth with spaceborne lidar
The world’s tropical forests are vulnerable, facing threats of deforestation and anthropogenic disturbances, but they are also the site of enormous potential for forest growth. While these changes in tropical forest frontiers are widely agreed to have major implications for global carbon fluxes and …
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A Global GIS Analysis of Primate Diversity and Biogeography: Assessing Trends in Habitat Loss and Extinction Risk to Inform Primate Conservation
… concentrated in the tropics, and tropical rainforests in particular. Tropical tree cover loss is therefore central to the biodiversity crisis, and unfortunately it is continuing at alarming rates and showing no signs of slowing. This forest loss severely impacts primates, which are …