Provost Michael Novacek Discusses Deforestation on Worldfocus

Tuesday, January 05 10:56 am

In a recent appearance on the nightly broadcast program Worldfocus, the Museum’s Provost of Science Michael J. Novacek discussed threats posed to climate and biodiversity by intensive deforestation around the world.

“There’s just too much forest being lost,” said Novacek, whose books include The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts and Terra: Our 100 Million-Year-Old Ecosystem—and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk. “There’s millions of species working together in ecosystems, and they’re not only important for driving the functions of the natural world, but they’re also the sources of food, medicine, and natural resources. By cutting away these forests,
we’re really losing species.”

Watch the full interview below.