Illegal logging threatens tropical forests and carbon stocks. Governments must work together to build an early warning system, say Jim Lynch and colleagues.
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08 May 2013
This article originally stated that more than one billion people in the tropics depend on forests for their livelihood, when it is more than one billion people worldwide. This has now been corrected.
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J.L. is director of forestry at DMC International Imaging. M.M. is executive director, Royal Society Industrial Fellow and minority shareholder at Rezatec. H.B. works in association with Astrium on various BIOMASS mission activities. M.S. is executive chairman of Surrey Satellite Technology and DMC International Imaging.
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Lynch, J., Maslin, M., Balzter, H. et al. Choose satellites to monitor deforestation. Nature 496, 293–294 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/496293a
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