Which one the following is false about habitat loss and fragmentation?

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This is the most important cause driving animals and plants to extinction.

The Amazon rain forest harbouring probably millions of species is being cut and cleared for cultivating soya beans or for conversion to grassland for raising beef cattle.

The most dramatic examples of habitat loss come from temperate rain forests.

Once covering more than 14 percent of the earth’s land surface, these rain forests now cover no more than 6 percent.

answer is B.

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Habitat loss and fragmentation is the most important cause driving animals and plants to extinction. The most dramatic examples of habitat loss come from tropical rain forests. Once covering more than 14 percent of the earth’s land surface, these rain forests now cover no more than 6 percent. The Amazon rain forest harbouring probably millions of species is being cut and cleared for cultivating soya beans or for conversion to grasslands for raising beef cattle.

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