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Endangered Atlantic Forest in Brazil
Submitted by the garden's director, Dr. Quentin Cronk:
The Amazon forest is in well-known decline, but another of Brazil's biodiversity hotspots, the Atlantic forest, has been even more devastated. The Atlantic forest contains the highest tree diversity in the world but its area has been reduced to a fraction of its former extent.
Brazil's other disappearing rainforest via the Sci-Tech section of Aljazeera.net
Posted by Daniel Mosquin at 11:19 AM on August 1, 2006
