Megaprojects risk pushing forests past tipping point – report

Huge road, energy and mining projects driving into heart of world's remaining forests

Infrastructure megaprojects risk pushing the world's remaining forests past a dangerous tipping point" and making climate targets unachievable, a report says.

Tens of thousands of miles of roads and railways are planned alongside mines and dams, opening up the forests of South America, south-east Asia and central Africa to destruction, according to the report by a coalition of 25 research and conservation organisations called the New York Declaration on Forests Assessment Partners. Today, almost half of all large mines - more than 1,500 - are in forests.