Once construction begins, road crews are quickly followed by land speculators, loggers, farmers, ranchers, gold miners and others who carve away the forest along the route. That activity leaves obvious scars on the landscape...but research is now showing that the building of roads also triggers a cascade of environmental changes in the remaining forest that can dry out trees, set the stage for wildfires and weaken the ecosystem. Adrian Cowells classic series THE DECADE OF DESTRUCTION chronicles the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, and the ensuing environmental and societal effects. bullfrogfilms/catalog/dod.html
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 01:00:00 +0000
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