Only Scraps of the South American Atlantic Forest Remain—Eastern Paraguay - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Services (GEAS) - September 2010

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationScience Division
dc.coverage.spatialParaguay
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-12T09:00:11Z
dc.date.available2022-10-12T09:00:11Z
dc.date.issued2010-09
dc.descriptionPrior to the mid-20th century, an extensive subtropical rain forest covered much of the Brazilian coastal plain, eastern Paraguay and part of northern Argentina. The forest supported over 20 000 plant species, many of them endemic, as well as a diverse array of fauna. Beginning with selective logging prior to the 1940s, deforestation accelerated through the 1970s, leaving less than 10 per cent of the original forest by early in the 21st century (Huang and others 2007, Huang and others 2009, Wayant and others 2010). Where these forests used to cover eastern Paraguay, farmland now dominates the landscape.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/40788
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofUNEP Global Environmental Alert Services (GEAS)
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectecosystem management
dc.subjectParaguay
dc.subjectdeforestation
dc.subjectforest
dc.titleOnly Scraps of the South American Atlantic Forest Remain—Eastern Paraguay - UNEP Global Environmental Alert Services (GEAS) - September 2010en
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