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Why Parks Can Benefit People (3 of 4)

Caption: Agriculture-driven deforestation has left Virunga National Park, home to half of the world’s mountain gorillas, an island in a sea of human settlement. This image relates to an article that appeared in the July 4, 2008, issue of Science , published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. George Wittemyer and colleagues at University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif. was titled "Accelerated Human Population Growth at Protected Area Edges."

Credit: Image courtesy of George Wittemyer

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