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01 Jan 1997
TL;DR: In the Indian subcontinent people now live at an average density of 236 people per km2, more than a thousand times the density of those in rural Amazonia.
Abstract: Hundreds of millions of people are still heavily dependent on ‘bush foods’ for subsistence but are no longer using them sustainably. In the Indian subcontinent people now live at an average density of 236 people per km2, more than a thousand times the density of those in rural Amazonia. The remaining forest habitats of India are constantly subjected to a virtual scouring by livestock and people in search of ‘minor forest produce’ (Dang 1991; Panwar 1992). The situation is similar in some other parts of Asia and in parts of Africa.

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