Mongabay on Mythryl: “More than half of the world’s forests became more fragmented from…”

More than half of the world’s forests became more fragmented from 2000-2020, according to a new Science study, with the highest rates in the tropics. The study also finds that in the tropical forests, protected areas experienced much lower rates of fragmentation than similar unprotected forests.

news.mongabay.comMore than half the world’s forests fragmented in 20 years — but protection works: Study“If you can imagine walking into a huge, 1,000-kilometer square [386-square-mile] tropical forest … it’s moist and damp [with] rich soil and an overstory. You imagine walking into a 10-meter…

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