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FEATURE: Old-Growth Carbon Findings Cause Forest Protection Schism
Posted on September 11, 2008
FEATURE ARTICLENew ecological science increases calls for forest protection movement to unite in campaign to protect all ancient forests By Earth's Newsdesk, a project of Ecological Internet (EI)A new study in the journal Nature [ark] finds old-growth forests are carbon sinks [search] and continually absorb carbon dioxide [1]. Australian researchers recently found logging primary forests releases 40 percent of their carbon [2]. These findings discredit decades of thought that primary forests are carbon neutral, they can or should be sustainably logged, and only young forests continue to re...
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