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Economist: The finitude of forests A scheme to save the world’s rainforests still seems too good to be true
AS THE heavens open, the canopy offers scant protection from the downpour, so the orang-utans tear leaves off the trees to make pathetic little umbrellas to hold over their heads. It is an endearingly human gesture but, as a means of keeping dry, almost entirely futile. And it is not just the rain that makes these creatures seem so helpless. The relentless destruction of their tropical-forest habitat......
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The finitude of forests
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 15th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation