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(properly planned) Roads could help rather than harm the environment
http://www.cam.ac.uk/news/roads-could-help-rather-than-harm-the-environment[font face=Serif][font size=5]Roads could help rather than harm the environment[/font]
[font size=4]Many roads are causing irreparable damage to nature but properly planned roads could actually help the environment[/font]
[font size=3]Two leading ecologists say a rapid proliferation of roads across the planet is causing irreparable damage to nature, but properly planned roads could actually help the environment.
“Loggers, miners and other road builders are putting roads almost everywhere, including places they simply shouldn’t go, such as wilderness areas,” said Professor Andrew Balmford of the University of Cambridge. “Some of these roads are causing environmental disasters.”
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“Just look at the Amazon rainforest,” said Laurance. “Over 95 percent of all forest destruction and wildfires occur within 10 kilometers of roads, and there’s now 100,000 kilometers of roads crisscrossing the Amazon.”
But the researchers say it doesn’t have to be like this. “Roads are like real estate,” said Laurance. “It’s ‘location, location, location’. In the right places, roads can actually help protect nature.”
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/495308a[font size=4]Many roads are causing irreparable damage to nature but properly planned roads could actually help the environment[/font]
[font size=3]Two leading ecologists say a rapid proliferation of roads across the planet is causing irreparable damage to nature, but properly planned roads could actually help the environment.
“Loggers, miners and other road builders are putting roads almost everywhere, including places they simply shouldn’t go, such as wilderness areas,” said Professor Andrew Balmford of the University of Cambridge. “Some of these roads are causing environmental disasters.”
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“Just look at the Amazon rainforest,” said Laurance. “Over 95 percent of all forest destruction and wildfires occur within 10 kilometers of roads, and there’s now 100,000 kilometers of roads crisscrossing the Amazon.”
But the researchers say it doesn’t have to be like this. “Roads are like real estate,” said Laurance. “It’s ‘location, location, location’. In the right places, roads can actually help protect nature.”
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