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24 paź 2023 · Widespread and increasing deforestation and degradation in the planet's three largest tropical forest basins—the Amazon, Congo, and the forests of Asia-Pacific—could deliver a global climate catastrophe.
Forests cover approximately 31 percent of the global land area and provide habitat for the vast majority of the terrestrial plant and animal species known to science. Forests and the biodiversity they contain continue to be under threat from farming and exploitation, much of it illegal.
13 lip 2021 · Planting trees by the millions and trillions is basking in round-the-world enthusiasm right now. Yet saving the forests we already have ranks higher in priority and in payoff, say a variety...
19 lis 2021 · The Congo forest basin is the second-largest rainforest in the world. More than half of it lies within the Democratic Republic of Congo. Environmental campaign group Greenpeace says illegal...
27 cze 2023 · An area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland was lost last year as tree losses surged, according to new research. It means that a political pledge to end deforestation made at COP26 by...
Since the end of the last ice age — 10,000 years ago — the world has lost one-third of its forests. 2 Two billion hectares of forest — an area twice the size of the United States — has been cleared to grow crops, raise livestock, and for use as fuelwood.
4 kwi 2024 · The Forest Pulse draws on the most recent data and analysis to reveal the latest trends in global forest loss and deforestation. How much forest was lost in 2023? This section of the Forest Pulse is updated annually using annual tree cover loss data to provide a comprehensive overview on where forests have been lost around the world.
