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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.
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.
Over the decade since 2010, the net loss in forests globally was 4.7 million hectares per year. However, deforestation rates were much significantly higher. The UN FAO estimate that 10 million hectares of forest were cut down each year. This interactive map shows deforestation rates across the world.
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 ...
This is a list of countries and territories of the world according to the total area covered by forests, based on data published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). In 2010, the world had 3.92 billion hectares (ha) of tree cover, extending over 30% of its land area. [1] [need quotation to verify]
Deforestation in the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state, 2009. Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use. [1] Deforestation can involve conversion of forest land to farms, ranches, or urban use.
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
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.