Mountain forests disappearing at alarming rate, says study

PARIS, March 18 — Logging, wildfires and farming are causing mountain forests, habitat to 85 per cent of the world’s birds, mammals and amphibians, to vanish at an alarming rate, according to a study published yesterday.Mountain forests covered 1.1 billion hectares (2.71 billion acres) of the planet in 2000, the authors of the study published…