Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

In Jamaica, native trees are being driven further up mountains towards extinction

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par John Healey, Professor of Forest Sciences, Bangor University
Edmund Tanner, Senior Lecturer (retired), Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

The Blue Mountains of Jamaica are frequently covered in a dense blanket of cloud, but when it lifts the first thing you notice is the cloak of forest extending up their steep slopes to the top of the highest peaks. As you walk up through these trees you encounter an incredible diversity of habitats from the high canopies of the lower slopes to the elfin forests of the ridge tops (barely taller than head height).

Yet new evidence shows that two effects of global climate change are combining to threaten these mountain forests. Climate change increases…

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