The planet’s largest tropical rainforest is currently being ... but farmers and loggers also purposefully set fire to the rainforest in order to clean land for industrial and agricultural ...
Fire crews responded to the Cleveland Metroparks ... feet of the former RainForest structure, to be renamed the Tropical Forest, and the addition of more than 33,500 square feet of new ...
and human-caused fire (reviewed in Geist & Lambin 2002). Over half the tropical moist forest cover worldwide has been cleared (Asner et al. 2009) and much of the remaining forest is affected by ...
The forest loss is also a ... of the world’s original old-growth tropical rainforests, and degraded another 30 per cent, leaving them more vulnerable to fire and future destruction, according ...