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Last frontier forests: Ecosystems and economies on the edge
Figure 4. Percentage of world's tropical forest cleared between 1960 and 1990
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Bryant, et al. 1997.
The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and Economies on the Edge.
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Last frontier forests: Ecosystems and economies on the edge
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Authors & Acknowledgments
Foreword
Table of Contents
Major findings
Introduction
Why do frontier forests matter?
What do we know about the world's forests?
WRI's forest frontier assessment
Falling frontiers
Figure 2. What happened to forests that once covered the Earth?
Figure 4. Percentage of world's tropical forest cleared between 1960 and 1990
Frontier forest myths
Today's threats
Destruction's roots
The Frontier Forest Index
Regional overviews
The closing frontier: A call to action
Conclusions
Technical Annex
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