Accelerating global mountain forest loss threatens biodiversity hotspots. One Earth, 2023; 6 (3): 303 DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.02.005 ...

But they have increasingly been targeted for timber and used for agriculture since the turn of the century. Commercial forestry was responsible for 42 percent of mountain forest loss, followed by ...

WASHINGTON - Logging, wildfires and farming are causing mountain forests, habitat to 85 per cent of the world’s birds, mammals and amphibians, to vanish at an alarming rate, according to a study ...

More than 7% of all mountain forests have been destroyed during the past two decades, according to a new study published in the journal One Earth. Using high-resolution satellite data and maps of ...

In the forest near Marysville in Victoria is a mountain ash known as the elephant tree. It's not as tall as Centurion, but is still impressive, with a trunk that measures 13.6 metres around its base.

Mountain forests covered 1.1 billion hectares (2.71 billion acres) of the planet in 2000, the authors of the study published in the Cell Press journal One Earth said.