Mining, drilling, and fire are fragmenting the world’s largest forests

Mongabay
Jul 28, 2026, 7:48 am98 pts
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. The world’s largest remaining stretches of undisturbed forest are shrinking. Fires now cause more of the loss than logging, while mining and oil and gas development have moved…

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