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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.
As of 2013, Peru had more than 50% coverage of the country in forest. [153] An important part of this coverage is Peruvian Amazonia . According to the Ministry of Environment (Peru) between 2001 and 2018 the country lost 2.2 million hectares of forest, mostly in the Amazonian regions of Loreto , San Martín and Ucayali .
The Green Belt Movement began its activity in Africa in 1977, eventually planting more than 30 million trees. [8] The Billion Tree Campaign was inspired by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement. When an executive in the United States told Maathai their corporation was planning to plant a million trees ...
Trees account for more than a quarter of the species on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List. The number of threatened trees is more than double the number of ...
A country that consumes more than 1.73 gha per person has a resource demand that is not sustainable world-wide if every country were to exceed that consumption level simultaneously. Countries with a footprint below 1.73 gha per person might not be sustainable: the quality of the footprint may still lead to net long-term ecological destruction.
As of November 2020, over 360 million trees had been planted in Madagascar by Eden Projects employees, with an average of 14 million more trees being planted every month. Thousands of local villagers now had consistent employment and were now able to send their children to school, provide food and clothing for dependent family members, and ...
Today, forests cover more than 30% of the world's land and contain more than 60,000 tree species, many as of yet unidentified. [11] [12] [13] Forests provide food, fiber, water and medicines for approximately 1.6 billion of the world's poorest people, including indigenous peoples with unique cultures. [14] [15]
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