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Published online 24 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030721-9
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Deforestation could wipe out one-fifth of species
Singapore survey reveals conservation crisis in Southeast Asia.
Up to one-fifth of the world's plant and animal species could be wiped out within 100 years by deforestation in Southeast Asia, according to a survey of extinction rates in Singapore1.
This bleak prognosis calls for tough conservation measures, says Barry Brook of the Northern Territory University in Darwin, Australia, who led the study.
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