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Updated 15 December 2006

OUR CHANGING PLANET
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program
for Fiscal Year 2007

A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and
The Subcommittee on Global Change Research
A Supplement to the President's Fiscal Year 2007 Budget

Figure 23.  Forest Cover of Madagascar, 1950s to ~2000.

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Forest cover changes from the 1970s to circa 2000 are shown in the main figure. Forest cover in the 1950s is shown in the lower right inset. Boxes on the left show forest cover as well as forest near edges and in isolated patches. The bioclimatic zones used for reporting cover and rates of change are provided in the Forest Zones inset. Credit: G. Harper, Conservation International.

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