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Could Coastal Trees Have Saved Lives?
Sunday, May 11, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
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By cutting down 50,000 acres of mangrove trees in the 1990s, and probably more since, Myanmar may have left itself much more vulnerable to last week's deadly Cyclone Nargis, according to Surin Pitsuwan, the secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Roughly nine million acres of mangrove forests have been cleared worldwide since 1980, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).    (source: sciam.com)


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