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English: Stacked column chart showing annual loss of tree cover, globally, based on World Resources Institute data published on Mongabay. Different from source's chart: the present chart uses downward-projecting bars, and re-orders the sequence of the four data series so that regions are in order from pole to equator: Boreal, Temperate, Sub-tropical, and Tropical.
Deforestation in British Columbia has resulted in a net loss of 1.06 million hectares (2.6 million acres) of tree cover between the years 2000 and 2020. [104] More traditional losses have been exacerbated by increased threats from climate change driven fires, increased human activity, and invasive species.
Deforestation in the United States was affected by many factors. One such factor was the effect, whether positive or negative, that the logging industry has on forests in the country. Logging in the United States is a hotly debated topic as groups who either support or oppose logging argue over its benefits and negative effects.
Cutting down and clearing trees is second only to burning fossil fuels as a creator of carbon emissions. Fighting the climate crisis becomes inexplicably harder without forests
Forest area net change rate per country in 2020. Deforestation is defined as the conversion of forest to other land uses (regardless of whether it is human-induced). [14] Deforestation and forest area net change are not the same: the latter is the sum of all forest losses (deforestation) and all forest gains (forest expansion) in a given period ...
Deforestation in Colombia fell 29.1% in 2022 versus the previous year spurred by sharp decreases in the country's Amazon region, the government said on Wednesday, marking the lowest level since 2013.
In the most recent five-year period (2015–2020), the annual rate of deforestation was estimated at 10 million ha, down from 12 million ha in 2010–2015. On a regional scale, Africa has the highest annual rate of net forest loss at 3.9 million ha in 2010–2020, followed by South America at 2.6 million ha.
English: Global forest expansion and deforestation 1990–2020 (million hectares per year), from the Food and Agriculture Organization publication The State of the World's Forests 2020. Forests, biodiversity and people – In brief