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Halting Neotropical Deforestation: Do The Forest Principles Have What It Takes?, Matthew B. Royer
Halting Neotropical Deforestation: Do The Forest Principles Have What It Takes?, Matthew B. Royer
Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
INTRODUCTION I crashed into the thick secondary growth, stopping suddenly to duck a certain branch in my path: a fat black bullet ant crawled along it with indifference, an attitude that would have quickly changed had I brushed up against him. I headed toward the large patch of Heliconia just to the right. We had earlier mapped out the clump, and finding it to contain seventeen flower clusters, it was one of the prize patches in the study plot. I took my spot ten paces from the outer clusters, started my stop watch, and waited with field book in hand. …