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The Amazon showed the most severe destruction from follow-up road building, with an associated forest loss 305 times greater than that directly linked to first-cut roads. In the Congo Basin and ...

The deforestation and forest degradation associated with the secondary roads also varied greatly across regions. In the Congo Basin, deforestation associated with secondary roads was 31.5 times ...

Image   Lire en français The Pulitzer Center is organising a conference-debate on the theme: ‘Deforestation and food ...

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Secondary roads accounted for forest loss and degradation rates that were 31.5 times greater than first-cut roads in the Congo Basin, 22.2 times greater in New Guinea, and 305.2 times greater in ...

which is home to about 60% of the forests in the Congo Basin, home to the largest expanse of tropical forest on earth. “All these viruses are viruses that have reservoirs in the forest.