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In 2008, Brazil's government announced a record rate of deforestation in the Amazon. [138] [139] Deforestation jumped by 69% in 2008 compared to 2007's twelve months, according to official government data. [140] Deforestation could wipe out or severely damage nearly 60% of the Amazon rainforest by 2030, according to a 2007 report from WWF. [141]
Deforestation in Nigeria is caused by logging, subsistence agriculture, and the collection of wood for fuel. According to the gfy, deforestation has wiped out nearly 90% of Africa's forest. West Africa only has 22.8% of its moist forests left, and 81% of Nigeria's old-growth forests disappeared within 15 years.
Compared to other East African countries Ethiopia's deforestation rate is about average. [4] However, the deforestation rates in East Africa are second highest of the continent. Moreover, it has the smallest fraction of its forest area designated primarily for conservation.
Yet deforestation increased by 4% worldwide in 2022 compared with 2021, as s. The world is moving too slowly to meet pledges to end deforestation by 2030, with the destruction worsening in 2022 ...
South Africa: 1,213,090: 169,773: 14.0% ... Deforestation by continent; Forest cover by state and territory in the United States; Forest cover by state in India;
Compared to other East African countries Ethiopia's deforestation rate is about average. [3] However, the deforestation rates in East Africa are second highest of the continent. Moreover, it has the smallest fraction of its forest area designated primarily for conservation.
Africa had the largest annual rate of net forest loss in 2010–2020, at 3.9 million ha, followed by South America, at 2.6 million ha. The rate of net forest loss has increased in Africa in each of the three decades since 1990. It has declined substantially in South America, however, to about half the rate in 2010–2020 compared with 2000–2010.
Deforestation in Brazil — which threatens the Amazon Rainforest, pictured above, — could hit an all-time low in the next 1-2 years, one government official said this week.