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African Soil Mapped For the Very First Time

Why should virgin forest be destroyed because of a soil map? The virgin forests are probably undisturbed because they exist in remote locations. Are there large agricultural corporations in Africa looking for land? Otherwise it would probably be too expensive for a subsistence farmer to deal with financial and other costs with clearing the land and establishing a farm.

Totally ignorant on this point, but I'm not aware of a correlation between forest land and underground minerals valued in the mining industry.

Chances are the map will point out the degraded farmlands and allow better planning for restoration. There might well be some destruction of virgin forest, but what about grasslands that are still in their native state? In the U.S., it's native prairie that's lost 99% of its area before European settlement. And most of that was to agriculture.

Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/gPBvyGdCXUo/story01.htm

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