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Following a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the Lesser Prairie-Chicken under the Endangered Species Act, conservation organizations are expecting a boom from energy companies adapting to new protections and landowners volunteering their acreage for habitat.

The Amazon region has lost 10% of its native vegetation, mostly tropical rainforest, in almost four decades, an area roughly the size of Texas, a new report says. From 1985 to 2021, the deforested area surged from 490,000 square kilometers (190,000 square miles) to 1,250,000 square kilometers (482,000 square miles), unprecedented destruction in the Amazon,…

From 1985 to 2021, the deforested area surged from 490,000 square kilometres to 1,250,000 square kilometres, satellite monitoring has revealed.

From 1985 to 2021, the deforested area surged from 490,000 square kilometres to 1,250,000 square kilometres, satellite monitoring has revealed.

From 1985 to 2021, the deforested area surged from 490,000 square kilometres to 1,250,000 square kilometres, satellite monitoring has revealed.

The Amazon region has lost 10 per cent of its native vegetation, mostly tropical rainforest, in almost four decades, an area roughly the size of Texas, a new report says.

From 1985 to 2021, the deforested area surged from 490,000 square kilometres to 1,250,000 square kilometres, satellite monitoring has revealed.

From 1985 to 2021, the deforested area surged from 490,000 square kilometres to 1,250,000 square kilometres, satellite monitoring has revealed.

From 1985 to 2021, the deforested area surged from 490,000 square kilometres to 1,250,000 square kilometres, satellite monitoring has revealed.

From 1985 to 2021, the deforested area surged from 490,000 square kilometres to 1,250,000 square kilometres.