How much rainforest is being destroyed?

Mongabay
Jun 10, 2020, 3:09 pm288 pts
Primary forests in the tropics are declining at an accelerating rate according to analysis of satellite data released last week by the University of Maryland (UMD) and World Resources Institute (WRI). Since 2002, the tropics lost more than 60 million hectares of primary forests, an area larger than the combined…

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