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Protected and intact forests lost at an alarming rate around the world
http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/for_media/press_releases/2015-10-15-003/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Protected and intact forests lost at an alarming rate around the world[/font]
15.10.2015
[font size=4]Protected and intact forests have been lost at a rapid rate during the first 12 years of this century.[/font]
[font size=1]Tropical forests have been cut in Cambodia.[/font]
[font size=3]According to researchers at Aalto University, Finland, 3% of the protected forest, 2.5% of the intact forest, and 1.5% of the protected intact forest in the world were lost during 2000–2012. These rates of forest loss are high compared to the total global forest loss of 5% for the same time period.
In Australia and Oceania, as well as North America, the loss in protected forests exceeded 5%. Worryingly, in parts of Africa, Central Asia, and Europe, the relative forest loss was higher inside protected areas than outside. However, in several countries of South America and Southeast Asia, protection was found to substantially prevent forest loss.
On a global scale, agricultural land expansion is one of the most important processes causing forest loss.
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– However, there are also positive signs, especially in the tropics. For example, the rate of forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon has finally declined in recent years, continues Matias Heino, researcher at Aalto University.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138918
15.10.2015
[font size=4]Protected and intact forests have been lost at a rapid rate during the first 12 years of this century.[/font]
[font size=1]Tropical forests have been cut in Cambodia.[/font]
[font size=3]According to researchers at Aalto University, Finland, 3% of the protected forest, 2.5% of the intact forest, and 1.5% of the protected intact forest in the world were lost during 2000–2012. These rates of forest loss are high compared to the total global forest loss of 5% for the same time period.
In Australia and Oceania, as well as North America, the loss in protected forests exceeded 5%. Worryingly, in parts of Africa, Central Asia, and Europe, the relative forest loss was higher inside protected areas than outside. However, in several countries of South America and Southeast Asia, protection was found to substantially prevent forest loss.
On a global scale, agricultural land expansion is one of the most important processes causing forest loss.
…
– However, there are also positive signs, especially in the tropics. For example, the rate of forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon has finally declined in recent years, continues Matias Heino, researcher at Aalto University.
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