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Deforestation is the clearing of forested land for human activities, such as farming, ranching, mining and development. It has devastating effects on climate, biodiversity, water and soil, and threatens the survival of millions of people and species.
Two independent datasets show that the world is not on track to halt deforestation. Global Forest Watch data — created using a globally standardized remote sensing methodology — indicates that annual tropical primary forest loss has actually increased by 41% since the NYDF was signed, and annual global deforestation has increased between 55% and 64%.
Stopping deforestation is crucial to cutting carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that 23% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2007-2016 came from agriculture and land-use change, approximately half of which is due to deforestation.
Yet deforestation increased by 4% worldwide in 2022 compared with 2021, as some 66,000 square kilometers (25,000 square miles) were destroyed, the annual Forest Declaration Assessment report said. That means the world is 21% off track to end deforestation by 2030.
The highest increase in tropical deforestation occurred in the West African country of Ghana, which saw forest loss increase by 71 per cent year on year – a record high. Laos (31 per cent) and the Philippines (25 per cent) also featured in the top 10 countries with the biggest spikes in primary forest loss in 2022.
Forests support 80% of land species, but their loss can lead to diverse responses in biodiversity. Learn how forest cover changes, history and species lifespan influence the abundance and composition of forest life.
The country set ambitious goals both to reduce deforestation and plant millions of trees in deforested areas. In April 2019, Colombia’s president launched “Operation Artemisa,” which employs the military, police and other public entities to stop deforestation in the country’s national parks, though its activities are not without ...
A study published in Nature shows that deforestation in the Amazon, Congo and Southeast Asia has led to a monthly rainfall reduction of up to 0.6 millimeters per percentage point of cleared forest. The researchers also found that the effects of deforestation increase with the distance and that it could threaten the viability of tropical forests and their communities.
Mexico is one of the most megadiverse countries, but also suffers from high deforestation and degradation. Learn how the World Economic Forum and its partners are supporting the restoration agenda and investing in forests.
Since the early 1980s, CIRAD and its partners have set up experimental plots to monitor tropical forest dynamics in order to assess the effects of selective logging on the reconstitution of the timber stock. This information now allows us to simulate the trajectories of exploited tropical rainforests according to the harvesting intensity, but ...