Tropical forest protected areas might be working better than you think

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Jan 27, 2016, 2:53 pm93 pts
Contrary to reports of declining biodiversity in protected tropical forests, the authors of an extensive study published this week in the journal PLOS Biology say they found no evidence of an overall decline in the number and distribution of species in protected areas. Species loss is alarmingly high around the…

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