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Addressing The Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Asia : a synthesis report of Asia regional process
The Asia regions are large and diverse and include one-fourth of the world's tropical forests and approximately half of its biological species. The forests of this region range from the temperate forests of East Asia to tropical forests of various types in South and Southeast Asia. Asia also have much diversities in languages, religion, cultures as well as political systems which make forest issues in Asia very complex problerns. This is also added with the fact that every country in the region has different historical back- ground of deforestation. China and India are those that have old historical background of deforestation, dating back to the period of dynasties and kingdoms, while the major ity of the Insular Southeast Asia has much newer deforestation history and Japan has medium length of history.
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