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greeneggs on Oct 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The High Sierra forest is dying, and you can't cou...

The campaigns to save the rainforest did a lot of good. Deforestation slowed dramatically, although it is still a problem.

29000 km^2 lost in 1995 -> 6000 km^2 lost in 2015

http://rainforests.mongabay.com/amazon/deforestation_calcula...

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