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Home / Publications / People & Ecosystems / Last frontier forests: Ecosystems and economies on the edge

Regional overviews

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Using a geographic information system, WRI has developed a single global database and a preliminary series of regional maps depicting the world’s frontier forests – both first of their kinds. In the coming years, WRI will update and improve these maps and get their obvious message to the world’s decision-makers.

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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
  • Today's threats
  • Destruction's roots
  • The Frontier Forest Index
  • Regional overviews
    • Regional overview: North and Central America
    • Regional overview: South America
    • Regional overview: Africa
    • Regional overview: Europe and Russia
    • Regional overview: Asia
    • Regional overview: Oceania
  • The closing frontier: A call to action
  • Conclusions
  • Technical Annex

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