Defaunation — the loss of species or decline of animal populations — is reaching even the most remote and pristine tropical forests. A new study publishing May 14, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, led by Ana Benítez-López from Radboud University, the Netherlands, predicts that even where deforestation has not been detected in the tropcis, hunting is reducing populations of large mammals by 40% on average, largely due to increased human accessibility to these remote areas.
Source: EurekaAlert, https://www.eurekalert.org