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Extractive industries threaten a million square kilometers of intact tropical forests around the globe [1]

According to a recent report, mining companies currently have claims on 11 percent of all intact rainforests left in the world, meaning 590,000 square kilometers (227,800 square miles) of prist

Publication Date: 
13/07/2018
Mongabay [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Deforestation [4], Global [5], Tropical Forests [6], Mining [7], WWF [8]

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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/tropical-forests
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mining
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/wwf