2023年3月2日 · Deforestation leads to three of the worst threats to biodiversity: habitat loss, land degradation, and habitat fragmentation. The world’s rainforests are logged, burned, and …

Deforestation in Borneo was historically low due to infertile soils, unfavourable climate, and the presence of disease. Deforestation only began in earnest during the mid-twentieth century. …

WWF projections indicate that if the island of Borneo continues at its current rate of deforestation, it will be severely affected by climate change through the increased risk of floods and forest …

2019年2月18日 · Using a data set spanning nearly two decades, researchers from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) found that the expansion of oil palm plantations in …

2024年5月29日 · Forest cover will drop below 50% in all three baselines, ranging between 49% to 40%. In particular, the Gaveau dataset estimates that forest cover has already fallen below …

2023年10月28日 · Growing concern about the significant forest loss and ecosystem degradation caused by deforestation has brought cultivation of palm oil to public attention. This led to the …

2014年7月16日 · More than 30 percent of Borneo’s rainforests have been destroyed over the past forty years due to fires, industrial logging, and the spread of plantations, finds a new study that …

2013年10月8日 · This summer, three different PLOS ONE studies addressed the complex issues surrounding deforestation. Separate groups of researchers mapped forest cover and logging …

2019年1月15日 · Between 2000 and 2017, 6.04 million hectares of old-growth forest were lost in Borneo, a decline of 14%. About half of that area was ultimately converted to industrial …

2016年9月8日 · Our study suggests that the plantation industry was the principle driver of the loss of old-growth forest in Malaysian Borneo, as 57–60% of all deforestation over four decades …