Our Country, the Planet: Forging a Partnership for SurvivalLime Tree, 1992 - 291 pages |
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Page 66
... forests we tend to focus on the loss of tropical rain forests . This is understandable , for the clearing of tropical forests — which really began on a large scale only in the 1950s — is a modern phenomenon documented by the media and ...
... forests we tend to focus on the loss of tropical rain forests . This is understandable , for the clearing of tropical forests — which really began on a large scale only in the 1950s — is a modern phenomenon documented by the media and ...
Page 68
... Tropical forests , in the central global band between roughly 10 degrees north and 10 degrees south of the equator ... tropical forest . Ghillean Prance , director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in England , found 179 species of ...
... Tropical forests , in the central global band between roughly 10 degrees north and 10 degrees south of the equator ... tropical forest . Ghillean Prance , director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in England , found 179 species of ...
Page 74
... TROPICAL forests are diminishing rapidly at the hands of man- kind . Loggers , shifting or slash - and - burn ... forests . When foreign exchange is desperately needed , timber or beef exports offer relief for a hard - pressed treasury ...
... TROPICAL forests are diminishing rapidly at the hands of man- kind . Loggers , shifting or slash - and - burn ... forests . When foreign exchange is desperately needed , timber or beef exports offer relief for a hard - pressed treasury ...
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Our Country, The Planet: Forging A Partnership For Survival Shridath S. Ramphal No preview available - 1992 |
Our Country, The Planet: Forging A Partnership For Survival Shridath S. Ramphal No preview available - 1992 |
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