India, China and Indonesia have some of the worst performing tropical forest protected areas, study finds

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By <a class="author-link"…Jan 19, 2016, 4:15 pm241 pts
Over the last few decades, protected areas in tropical forests have expanded rapidly, both in number and extent. But do protected areas actually reduce deforestation? According to a recent study published in PLoS ONE, protected areas in the tropics do help slow down loss of forest cover, but their performance…

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