Forest disturbance alerts for the Congo Basin using Sentinel-1
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Forest Elephant Crisis in the Congo Basin
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0001 The 1980s were not kind to African elephants. Poachers committed brutal acts in the pursuit of tusks to feed the human hunger for ivory. Gruesome images of the carnage they left behind—mutilated corpses sprawled in twisted repose, attended by bereft companions and bewildered orphans— helped document the precipitous collapse of Africa’s elephant populations. Between 1970 and 1989, as global...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Research Letters
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abd0a8