- A study in Nature reports that up to 85% of species listed as threatened in the Amazon may have lost a substantial portion of their habitat owing to deforestation and fires in the past two decades. Since 2001, an area up to the size of Washington state has burned. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fire-amazon-rainforest-threatened-species-deforestation-biodiversity 7 comments science
- In the last two decades, deforestation and forest fires have encroached on the ranges of thousands of plant and animal species in the Amazon rainforest, including up to 85 percent of threatened species in the region, researchers report in Nature. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fire-amazon-rainforest-threatened-species-deforestation-biodiversity 2 comments science
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