Saturday, 13 July 2019

High-value opportunities exist to restore tropical rainforests around the world – here’s how we mapped them - questbuzz.com

High-value opportunities exist to restore tropical rainforests around the world – here’s how we mapped them - questbuzz.com

The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning brown. Since 1990, Indonesia has lost 50% of its original forest, the Amazon 30% and Central Africa 14%. Fires, logging, hunting, road building and fragmentation have heavily damaged more than 30% of those that remain.

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