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The combined impacts of deforestation and climate change will bring a host of new troubles for the world's tropical rainforests argues a new study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Drying rainforests due to climate change could lead to previously inaccessible forests falling to loggers, burning in unprecedented fires, or being overexploited by hunters.
http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0313-hance_climate_deforestation.html
Climate change could increase fires, logging, and hunting in rainforests
Date : 13th March 2012, Source : MongabayThe combined impacts of deforestation and climate change will bring a host of new troubles for the world's tropical rainforests argues a new study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. Drying rainforests due to climate change could lead to previously inaccessible forests falling to loggers, burning in unprecedented fires, or being overexploited by hunters.
http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0313-hance_climate_deforestation.html
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