Mongabay: Latin America lost nearly 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 square miles) of forest - an area larger than the state of Oregon - between 2001 and 2010, finds a new study that is the first to assess both net forest loss and regrowth across the Caribbean, Central and South America. The study, published in the journal Biotropica by researchers from the University of Puerto Rico and other institutions, analyzes change in vegetation cover across several biomes, including forests (dry, temperate, moist,...
URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0819-latin-america-deforestation.html
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