Less than half of world’s humid tropical forests have high ecological integrity: Study

Huge and ancient canopy trees like this one are home to many species and store a large amount of carbon. Image courtesy of A.J. Hansen.
September 25, 2020
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Over 93% of the Earth’s best-quality and least-disturbed tropical forests have no legal protection from destruction, according to a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution. Humid broadleaf tropical and subtropical forests cover just 14% of the Earth’s land surface, but support at least half of all species and offer key ecosystem services, making them crucial to meeting global climate and conservation targets.

Original Article

Tropical forests
ecological integrity
Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
convention on biodiversity
research