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Razing the Rainforest : In the News
Nature laid waste: The destruction of Africa
- Source: The Independent
11th June 2008
The massive scale of environmental devastation across the continent has been fully revealed for the first time in an atlas compiled by UN geographers
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Third largest tropical forest could be halved by 2021
- Source: The Guardian
- 3rd June 2008
The forests of Papua New Guinea are being chopped down so quickly that more than half its trees could be lost by 2021, according to a new satellite study of the region
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Images reveal ‘rapid forest loss’
- Source: BBC News
- 2nd June 2008
High-resolution satellite images have revealed the "rapid deforestation" of Papua New Guinea's biodiversity rich rainforests over the past 30 years
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Prince Charles launches campaign to save ravaged rainforests
- Source: The Guardian
- 21st October 2007
Prince Charles launches an organisation which calls for a new green economics that recognises the world's rainforests are worth more alive than dead
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Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming
- Source: The Independent
- 14th May 2007
The accelerating destruction of the rainforests that form a precious cooling band around the Earth's equator, is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change
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