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Forest definition comes under fire

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Ecologists accuse framework convention of barking up the wrong tree.

The health of the world's forests — and their capacity to lock away carbon — could be jeopardized by logging if the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) definition of a forest is not changed, a study warns.

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