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Mountain Forest Loss in Southeast Asia Accelerating At Unprecedented Rate

07/07/2021 11:42 PM | Click to read full article

Southeast Asia is home to roughly half of the world’s tropical mountain forests. These highland ecosystems support massive carbon stores and tremendous biodiversity, including a host of species that occur nowhere else on the planet.

But new evidence suggests these havens are in grave danger.

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