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February 2011
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Rural21-Vol:45-Nr:2/2011-Article:3
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The importance of forests for climate change mitigation and species conservation, as water stores and oxygen producers, soil protectors and humus providers, is well known. However, over 13 million hectares of forest are lost each year, mainly in the tropics.
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