Scientists from all fields studied only that which was easiest to record, seemingly blind to a myriad of details awaiting closer examination. Although interdisciplinary research has been a popular topic for some decades now, it was not applied to just the most complex habitat on earth. The world's scientific community neglected to study the incalculable riches of tropical forests, to make the public aware of them and their due importance. Until recently, no one really seemed to be interested in the rainforests except for a few specialists. This is reason enough to take a closer Iook at the history of moist tropical West Africa. West Africa is a pioneer in both a good and a bad sense. Past and present developments here are in one way or the other significant for rainforests on other continents as weil. Nowhere eise in the world did industrialized countries leave such early marks in the rainforest as in West Africa.
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