July 6, 2001
Tropical Forests and the Human Effect
No one disputes that tropical forests are shrinking -- at a rate that, according to one estimate, could lead to their disappearance in two generations -- but environmentalists disagree, sometimes vehemently, over how best to halt the destruction and protect what remains.
Some of those disagreements and that vehemence have been on display in recent months in the journal Conservation Biology, published by the Society for Conservation Biology. The debate raises practical questions of what
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