Old-School Tree Cutting Drives Deforestation in the Congo Basin (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Old-School Tree Cutting Drives Deforestation in the Congo Basin (1 of 4)

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Three-year moving average of annual forest loss area for the major disturbance categories in all countries. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 7th, 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Tyukavina at University of Maryland in College Park, MD, and colleagues was titled, "Congo Basin forest loss dominated by increasing smallholder clearing."

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Tyukavina <em>et al., Sci. Adv.</em> 2018;4: eaat2993

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