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Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia

Environmental research letters, 2018-07, Vol.13 (7), p.74028 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2018 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd ;2018. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 1748-9326 ;EISSN: 1748-9326 ;DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aacd1c ;CODEN: ERLNAL

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  • Title:
    Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia
  • Author: Turubanova, Svetlana ; Potapov, Peter V ; Tyukavina, Alexandra ; Hansen, Matthew C
  • Subjects: Clearing ; Deforestation ; Dynamic tests ; Ecosystem services ; Exploitation ; Forest ecosystems ; Forests ; Logging ; Peatlands ; primary forest ; Rainforests ; remote sensing ; Tropical forests
  • Is Part Of: Environmental research letters, 2018-07, Vol.13 (7), p.74028
  • Description: Humid tropical forests provide numerous global ecosystem services, but are under continuing threat of clearing from economic drivers. Here, we report primary humid tropical forest extent for the year 2001, and primary forest loss and distance to loss from 2002-2014 for the largest rainforest countries of Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Indonesia. Brazil's total area of primary forest loss is more than twice that of Indonesia and five times that of DRC. Despite unprecedented success in slowing deforestation along its forest frontier, Brazil's most remote forests are increasingly nearer to loss, as extractive activities such as logging and mining intrude upon previously intact forests. In absolute terms, DRC has the lowest area of primary forest loss; however, its forests are increasingly encroached upon as smallholder agriculturalists move into remaining forests, often to escape conflict and insecurity. The decrease in DRC forests' distance to loss as a function of area of forest loss was five times that of Brazil or Indonesia. In 2014, Indonesia had the least area of remaining primary forest. Despite an announced moratorium on concession licenses in 2011, Indonesia exhibited a rate of primary forest loss twice that of DRC and triple that of Brazil by the end of the study period. Forest loss dynamics in Indonesia range from industrial-scale clearing of coastal peatlands to logging of interior montane rainforests. While results illustrate considerable variation in forest loss dynamics between the three countries, the dominant narrative is of ongoing exploitation of primary humid tropical forests.
  • Publisher: Bristol: IOP Publishing
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1748-9326
    EISSN: 1748-9326
    DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aacd1c
    CODEN: ERLNAL
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