article_snippet.sent: Demand for rubber to make tyres is having a ‘catastrophic’ impact on the world’ s forests, scientists have warned.
article_snippet.sent: Demand for rubber to make tyres is putting endangered gibbons, leopards and elephants in south east Asia at risk, a study published in the journal Conservation Letters says.
article_snippet.sent: Lead researcher Eleanor Warren-Thomas said: ‘The tyre industry consumes 70 per cent of all natural rubber grown, and rising demand for vehicle and aeroplane tyres is behind the recent expansion of plantations.
article_snippet.sent: The tyre industry consumes 70 per cent of all natural rubber grown, and rising demand for vehicle and aeroplane tyres is behind the recent expansion of plantations .
highlights_snippet.sent: Rising demand for rubber tyres for cars and planes driving deforestation .