On track to 'go beyond the critical point': Sri Lanka still losing forests at rapid clip

Mongabay
By Morgan Erickson-DavisJul 15, 2014, 2:18 pm71 pts
During the latter half of Sri Lanka's civl war, between 1990 and 2005, Sri Lanka suffered one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world, losing about 35 percent of its old growth forest and almost 18 percent of its total forest cover. The conflict ended in 2009, and while deforestation has slowed…

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