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FORESTS: World Bank Revises Strategy To Foster Conservation, Development

Published on 31 Oct 2002
The World Bank's board of executive directors yesterday approved a new forest strategy to improve the lives of 500 million people living in extreme poverty, while improving the environmental protection of forests, which cover 26 percent of the Earth's land surface and are home to at least 80 percent of remaining terrestrial biodiversity.
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