New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests


	New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests

JICWyllie

1-30-2009 8:40 AM

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environment, forests, i-regeneration, i-opportunity, i-climate change

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1-30-2009 12:12 PM

chiggles

Neat.
Not that biodiversity renewal/creation in the new forests will ever equal biodiversity loss in the old forests. Just because you believe there to be new resources is no need to continue on the same old destructive path.

1-30-2009 12:27 PM

BartendingBear

Thanks, chig. You saved me a lot of typing.

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