WWF: Grassland Decline Continues at Alarming Pace With 1.6 Million Acres of the Great Plains Destroyed in 2021 Alone
October 27, 2023
October 27, 2023
BOZEMAN, Montana, Oct. 27 (TNSres) -- World Wildlife Fund issued the following news release:
Annual analysis from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reveals 1.6 million acres of grasslands across the US and Canadian Great Plains were destroyed in 2021 - continuing a steady, devastating trend in the region. The Plowprint report once again identified row crop expansion as the primary driver of plow-up, erasing the equivalent of an area greater than the state of Delaware from the map in only 12 . . .
Annual analysis from World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reveals 1.6 million acres of grasslands across the US and Canadian Great Plains were destroyed in 2021 - continuing a steady, devastating trend in the region. The Plowprint report once again identified row crop expansion as the primary driver of plow-up, erasing the equivalent of an area greater than the state of Delaware from the map in only 12 . . .