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However, massive deforestation for economic development threatens its forests and ecosystems. As of 2015, the country has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. [47] Deforestation has directly resulted from poorly managed commercial logging, fuel wood collection, agricultural invasion, and infrastructure and urban development.
The assessment showed that although the rate of deforestation has slowed, the world's forest area continues to decrease. [16] Key findings include: The world has a total forest area of 4.06 billion hectares (ha), which is 31 percent of the total land area. The world's forest area is decreasing, but the rate of loss has declined since 1990.
The EU Regulation on Deforestation-free products (Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, abbreviated EUDR) is a European Union regulation on deforestation.The goal of the EUDR is to guarantee that the products European Union (EU) citizens consume do not contribute to deforestation or forest degradation worldwide.
Global deforestation [31] sharply accelerated around 1852. [32] [33] As of 1947, the planet had 15 to 16 million km 2 (5.8 to 6.2 million sq mi) of mature tropical forests, [34] but by 2015, it was estimated that about half of these had been destroyed. [35] [21] [36] Total land coverage by tropical rainforests decreased from 14% to 6%. Much of ...
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature is the best known worldwide conservation status listing and ranking system. . Species are classified by the IUCN Red List into nine groups set through criteria such as rate of decline, population size, area of geographic distribution, and degree of population and distribution fragmenta
The U.K. government said it has received commitments from leaders representing more than 85% of the world’s forests to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030. At COP26, over 100 countries pledge ...
A country that consumes more than 1.73 gha per person has a resource demand that is not sustainable world-wide if every country were to exceed that consumption level simultaneously. Countries with a footprint below 1.73 gha per person might not be sustainable: the quality of the footprint may still lead to net long-term ecological destruction.
However deforestation appears to continue in remote areas. New crop cultivation of slopes exceeding 15 degrees has been banned to help prevent erosion and landslides. [22] In 2018, North Korea had a Forest Landscape Integrity Index mean score of 8.02/10, ranking it 28th globally out of 172 countries. [23]