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Forests shrink, with 70 per cent now less than 1 km from edge [1]

Farms, roads and towns are fast slicing up the world's wilderness, leaving 70 per cent of the world's remaining forested land less than one km from a forest edge, a US-led study showed.

Publication Date: 
23/03/2015
Age (Australia) [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Biodiversity [4], Urbanisation [5], Amazon [6], Congo [7], Flora [8], Fauna [9], Guinea [10], Russia [11], Canada [12]

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