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Thomas E. Lovejoy, III (1941-2021)

Academy of Natural Sciences

This vastly improved biologists’ understanding of the impacts of habitat fragmentation and helped spark global concern about deforestation in the Amazon. In 2001 he was awarded the prestigious Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

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Testimony by Michael Shellenberger before the House Agriculture Committee on “Climate Change and the U.S. Agriculture and Forestry Sectors”

Environmental Progress

Globally, the rate of reforestation is catching up to a slowing rate of deforestation. [11] crops declined 18% between 1980 and 2008 and is today 80 percent lower than their 1972 peak. [17] Riley, “Estimates of Regional and Global Life Expectancy, 1800–2001,” Population and Development Review 31, no. 2] James C. million to 3.3