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Forests of Borneo on the brink
Three more years. If trends continue, that's the estimate of when all of the lowland forests of Borneo will be stripped bare, including forests within the borders of national parklands. A team of American and Indonesian scientists have analyzed the loss of forests using satellite, GIS and field data from 1987 to 2001 and concluded that forest area declined by more than 56% (over 29000 square kilometers).
Links:
Logging threatens Borneo's rainforests from the Rainforest Action Network
Borneo forest faces extinction from Wired News
Dr. Lisa Curran web page, principal author of the paper that appears in the February 13, 2004 edition of Science, Lowland Forest Loss in Protected Areas of Indonesian Borneo (link to abstract)
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 9:30 PM on February 16, 2004
