The World - News from July 10, 1985
International organizations offered $8 billion over the next five years to try to halt the destruction of tropical forests in the Third World. John Spears, forestry adviser for the World Bank, told representatives of 96 nations attending the 9th World Forestry Congress, in Mexico City, that desertification affects more than 2 billion people and threatens “a universal disaster.” Twenty organizations agreed to form a study group, and international funding for forestry programs will double.
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