Understanding Global Issues

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Amazonia: An ecological crisis

The rainforest is of key global importance in terms of both its natural resources and its impact on climate. Yet more than half of the world's equatorial rainforest has been lost over the last fifty years. During the 1980s the rate of destruction accelerated. The Amazon rainforest represents about 40% of what is left. Can it be saved?

Published: May 1992 ISBN: 0850489229

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