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New forest map shows 6% of Amazon deforested between 2000 and 2010 [1]

An update to one of the most comprehensive maps of the Amazon basin shows that forest cover across the world's largest rainforest declined by about six percent between 2000 and 2010.

Publication Date: 
24/09/2012
Environment News Network [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Amazon [4], Deforestation [5], Suriname [6], French Guiana [7], Ecuador [8], Bolivia [9], Peru [10], Brazil [11], Colombia [12]
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