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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.
Forest area net change rate per country in 2020. Deforestation is defined as the conversion of forest to other land uses (regardless of whether it is human-induced). [14] Deforestation and forest area net change are not the same: the latter is the sum of all forest losses (deforestation) and all forest gains (forest expansion) in a given period ...
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.
The president of Ibama — Brazil’s environmental enforcement agency — told several outlets that the country expects deforestation to reach the same rates recorded in 2012, when the country ...
In the most recent five-year period (2015–2020), the annual rate of deforestation was estimated at 10 million ha, down from 12 million ha in 2010–2015. On a regional scale, Africa has the highest annual rate of net forest loss at 3.9 million ha in 2010–2020, followed by South America at 2.6 million ha.
Deforestation in the United States was affected by many factors. One such factor was the effect, whether positive or negative, that the logging industry has on forests in the country. Logging in the United States is a hotly debated topic as groups who either support or oppose logging argue over its benefits and negative effects.
This trend gives hope to Amazon. Deforestation reduction in Brazil (59%) which is the main cause of the trend is probably due to Lula's environmental policy. In Columbia, the rate of deforestation fell by 66.5% probably due to the policies of Gustavo Petro and a change in the policies of former guerrilla fighters that control part of the forest ...
Changes in forest area (like deforestation) may follow a pattern suggested by the forest transition (FT) theory, [9] whereby at early stages in its development a country is characterized by high forest cover and low deforestation rates (HFLD countries). [10] Then deforestation rates accelerate (HFHD, high forest cover – high deforestation ...