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Deforestation and Its Consequences in the Asia-Pacific Region

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Large-scale deforestation and forest degradation have become common in most tropical areas in the 60 years since Richards first expressed his concerns. Part of the reason has been the need for more agricultural lands. The world’s population in 1950 was 2.5 billion people but this had risen to 6.1 billion by 2000. Many of those carrying out deforestation did so to grow food and probably viewed the forests they were clearing as being endless. But concerns have grown about the transformation that is underway. Biologists, in particular, have worried about the dramatic impact tropical deforestation is having on global biodiversity. Because of this there have been increased efforts to save representative samples of the world’s tropical forests in National Parks, protected areas or in some kind of forest reserves – before they have all been cleared.

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Lamb, D. (2011). Deforestation and Its Consequences in the Asia-Pacific Region. In: Regreening the Bare Hills. World Forests, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9870-2_1

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