Rainforest Destruction – Greater and More Concentrated

[Another post by Ken Levenson.]

Deforestation is not only unabated, it’s accelerating around the globe. The problem is growing bigger, and yet it is also becoming more concentrated.

Just how concentrated? Previously Brazil was thought to account for about a quarter of worldwide deforestation. Now it is understood to be a whopping 48%.

This news comes from a new study in the 7/8/08 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Matthew Hansen – as reported by Mongabay:

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