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Forest cover in the Eastern United States reached its lowest point in roughly 1872 with about 48 percent compared to the amount of forest cover in 1620. The majority of deforestation took place prior to 1910 with the Forest Service reporting the minimum forestation as 721,000,000 acres (2,920,000 km 2) around 1920. [2]
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]
Forest cover in the Eastern United States reached its lowest point in roughly 1872 with about 48 percent compared to the amount of forest cover in 1620. The majority of deforestation took place prior to 1910 with the Forest Service reporting the minimum forestation as 721,000,000 acres (2,920,000 km 2) around 1920. [8]
AGUA CLARA, Brazil (AP) — Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level of destruction in nine years. In a 12-month span, the Amazon rainforest lost 6,288 square kilometers (2,428 square miles), roughly the size of the U.S. state of Delaware.
Instead, deforestation fell only 6.3% last year, as two of the three rainforest nations faced early stumbles. One year after more than 140 countries pledged to halt all deforestation by 2030 ...
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.
When Brazil’s current president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, took office on 1 January, deforestation rates began dropping almost immediately. Within the first six months of 2023, Amazon ...
As a result of deforestation, only 6.2 million square kilometres (2.4 million square miles) remain of the original 16 million square kilometres (6 million square miles) of tropical rainforest that formerly covered the Earth. [19] More than 3.6 million hectares of virgin tropical forest was lost in 2018. [22]