FEATURE - Rubber Trees For Tyre Industry Shrink China Rainforests CHINA: April 8, 2008 XISHUANGBANNA - On a map on ecologist Liu Wenjie's computer, the subtropical southern tip of China's Yunnan province is slowly turning from green to red. Rubber plantations -- shown in red on Liu's computer screen -- have supplanted nearly all the low-lying forest in the prefecture of Xishuangbanna and are now starting to encroach on the highlands.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/rubber-trees-tyre-industry-shrink-china-rainforests
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/planet-ark-australia
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forests
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-use
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rubber
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rubber-industry
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/china
