Rainforest biodiversity rebounds within a single generation
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Cleared tropical rainforests can recover 90 percent of their species diversity within a single human generation, according to new research from Ecuador’s Chocó region, one of the most biodiverse stretches of Pacific coast forest on the continent. The study, published in Nature, pooled data from more than 30 research groups tracking over 10,000 species across 62 sites, from working farms to forests that had been regrowing for years. The lead author, Timo Metz,
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