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The Vanishing Rainforest of the Philippine Islands | |
 ©2002 Redrawn from National Mapping and Resource Information Authority, 1988. |
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Old-growth rain forest covered about 70 percent of the Philippines in 1900. By 1992, that had been reduced to only abtou eight percent, in scattered, usually small, fragments. |
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