Destruction of forests foreseen
NZPA-Reuter Bangkok
The Asian and Pacific region will lose 36 million hectares of prime tropical forests by the turn of the century if farming trends continue, says the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (F.A.0.). F.A.O.’s Assistant Direc-tor-General, Mr S. S. Puri, speaking at a week-end meeting in Bangkok of its Asian-Pacific Forestry Commission, said excessive deforestation had to be arrested by boosting agricultural output on land already under cultivation. The F.A.O. estimates that the region lost nine million hectares of forest between 1976 and 1980, largely because of a need to clear new land for agriculture.
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