Mountain forests disappearing at alarming rate

Mountain forests disappearing at alarming rate – study

By Agence France-Presse

Mar 18, 2023 8:38 pm

LOGGING, wildfires and farming are causing mountain forests, habitat to 85 percent of the world's birds, mammals and amphibians, to vanish at an alarming rate, according to a study published on Friday (Saturday in Manila).

Mountain forests covered 1.1 billion hectares (2.71 billion acres) of the planet in 2000, the authors of the study published in the Cell Press journal One Earth said.

An environmental worker taking inventory of a rainforest in Papua New Guinea. Forests are literal green gold for carbon markets. Photo BY UN Development Program

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