Tropical Pioneers: Human Agency and Ecological Change in the Highlands of Sri Lanka, 1800-1900
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In 1800 the highlands of Sri Lanka had some of the most biologically diverse rainforests in the world. By 1900, through slash-and-burn agriculture and the British creation of plantations, only a few craggy corners and mountain tops remained under primary forest.
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