Modern mass extinction in an Ecuadorean cloud forest found to be a mirage

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Oct 15, 2024, 5:00 am254 pts
One of the most notorious mass extinction events in modern times occurred on a hilltop in coastal Ecuador in the 1980s. Ninety species of plants known from nowhere else on Earth—many of them new to science and not yet given a name—went extinct when the last cloud forests of the Centinela range were cleared…

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