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In 2020, the world had a total forest area of 4.06 billion ha, which was 31 percent of the total land area. This area is equivalent to 0.52 ha per person [2] – although forests are not distributed equally among the world's people or geographically. The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world's forests (45 percent), followed by ...
As of 2015, its primary forest cover was 36.2 million hectares, the 13th largest national area in the world and representing 2.8% of the worldwide total. [142] Bolivia also has the seventh largest amount of tropical rainforest. Overall, forests made up 51.4 million hectares or 46.8% of the country's total area as of 2013. [143]
The world-average ecological footprint in 2016 was 2.75 global hectares per person (22.6 billion in total). With a world-average biocapacity of 1.63 global hectares (gha) per person (12.2 billion in total), this leads to a global ecological deficit of 1.1 global hectares per person (10.4 billion in total). [1]
Map of national forests and national grasslands of the United States. The United States has 154 protected areas known as national forests, covering 188,336,179 acres (762,169 km 2; 294,275 sq mi). [1] National forests are managed by the U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. [2]
Nestled in Olympic National Park in western Washington state, Hoh Rain Forest is like stepping into a green fantasy world with its moss-covered maples, vibrant ferns, and coniferous trees such as ...
Nestled in Olympic National Park in western Washington state, Hoh Rain Forest is like stepping into a green fantasy world with its moss-covered maples, vibrant ferns, and coniferous trees such as ...
However, forest cover is severely threatened by deforestation, as a direct consequence of agriculture, grazing, [7] and mining. [8] Since the onset of agriculture (about 12,000 years ago), the number of trees worldwide has dropped by 46%. [9] Since 1990, the world has lost 178 million ha of forest (an area roughly the size of Libya).
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