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The world’s remaining tropical forests, acting as "arks or sanctuaries" for many rare species, are becoming increasingly squeezed, according to a new global study<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Rapid deforestation in tropical areas in Asia, Africa and the Americas is opening up more of the world’s last protected areas to encroachment by loggers, land-grabbers, poachers and other external threats.<\/p>\n

Around 85% of protected tropical forests evaluated by researchers had lost nearby forest cover over the past 20-30 years.<\/p>\n

The major scientific study, which involved more than 200 scientists from around the world, is a stark warning to policymakers ahead of the UN’s latest biodiversity Summit<\/a> in October in India.<\/p>\n

Lead-author professor William Laurance, from James Cook University in Cairns, Australia, said protected areas were “like arks for biodiversity.”<\/p>\n

“But some of the arks are in danger of sinking, even though they are our best hope to sustain tropical forests and their amazing biodiversity in perpetuity.”<\/p>\n

Tropical forests are the most ecologically diverse regions on Earth – home to a wide variety of species from butterflies to orangutans that are found nowhere else on the planet.<\/p>\n

Laurance told chinadialogue<\/i> protected areas were “badly needed’ but that surrounding areas needed to be careful managed to act as buffer zones to safeguard against external threats.<\/p>\n

“We have no choice, tropical forests are the biologically richest real estate on the planet, and a lot of that biodiversity will vanish without good protected areas,” concludes Laurance.<\/p>\n

Tom Levitt, chinadialogue<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world’s remaining tropical forests, acting as "arks or sanctuaries" for many rare species, are becoming increasingly squeezed, according to a new global study.  Rapid deforestation in tropical areas in Asia, Africa and the Americas is opening up more of the world’s last protected areas to encroachment by loggers, land-grabbers, poachers and other external threats. 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