Thousands of tree species at risk of extinction in Atlantic Forest
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The Atlantic Forest, located along Brazil’s southern coast, has been in dire straits for decades, with expanding cities and agriculture leaving only a small fraction of the forest standing today. But the situation might be even worse than previously thought. Several thousand tree species in the forest are threatened with extinction, a new study has […]
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Integrated Conservation of four threatened tree species in one of the most degraded ecosystems on the planet, the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
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How much global forest was lost in 2019?
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Neotropical Tree Communities database (@treeco_db) / X
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alexandrapopescu, Author at Conservation news
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Indonesia's besieged Tesso Nilo National Park hit hard by yet more deforestation, satellites show : r/forests
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Conservation news on Threats To Rainforests
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4 solutions for trees and forests threatened by a hotter world
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Are protected areas an incalculable price for local communities?
Alan Watson Featherstone on LinkedIn: Protecting Wilderness Is Protecting Its Inhabitants: Fungi
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Remote sensing data reveals hundreds more species at risk of extinction