Rainforest Road (IMAGE)

Wildlife Conservation Society

Rainforest Road

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This is a road in the rainforests of Ecuador. In a newly published study in Conservation Letters, researchers assessed rates of habitat conversion versus protection at a 1 km resolution across the worlds 825 terrestrial ecoregions (areas that contain unique communities of plant and animal) since the CBD was first ratified in 1992. They showed that while there have been considerable gains in global efforts to increase the size of protected area estate, alarming levels of habitat loss still persist.

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Karla Gachet

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