What is it about?
The price of natural rubber from plantations has fallen drastically since 2012. We looked the impact on deforestation and forest fragmentation in tropical Xishuangbanna in SW China. Satellite images show that deforestation has slowed, but not stopped, and that smallholders have started to replace rubber by other crops.
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The expansion of rubber plantations was probably the single biggest human impact in northern SE Asia in the last 10 years.
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This page is a summary of: After the rubber boom: good news and bad news for biodiversity in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China, Regional Environmental Change, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-019-01509-4.
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