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Article: OPENING THE CANOPY: CENTRAL AMERICAN FORESTS FACE THREATS OF GLOBALIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
- Article from:
- NotiCen: Central American & Caribbean Affairs
- Article date:
- August 8, 2002
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By Jill Replogle, Inforpress Centroamericana
[The author is a staff writer for Inforpress Centroamericana, published in Guatemala]
The narrow land corridor connecting the northern and southern halves of the American continent has always played a crucial role as both a barrier to biological diffusion and a unique bioregion made up of diverse, species-rich ecosystems. The UN Environmental Program's recently released report, Global Environmental Outlook 3 (GEO-3): State of the Environment and Policy Retrospective 1972-2002, says that Meso-America (defined as Central America and Mexico) had 73 million hectares of forested land in 2000, around 7.5% of the ...