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Costa Rica's Cloud Forests Threatened

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
20 October 2001 - 7:00am

Cloud forests are critical for bio-diversity and clean water. In Costa Rica, an increasing population is threatening cloud forests.

"The clouds over the Monteverde cloud forests of Costa Rica are shrinking...as a result of deforestation in the lowlands, according to a study in the October 19 issue of the journal Science. Robert Lawton, a forest ecologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and his colleagues conducted the research."

Full Story: Costa Rica's Cloud Forests: Misty No More?
Source: National Geographic, October 19, 2001
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