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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. [1] [need quotation to verify]
Momentum has since continued, with 40,000 young ambassadors spreading the message in over 100 countries. [20] In 2015, researcher Tom Crowther found that about 3 trillion trees exist in the world [21] and later it was also estimated that planting 1.2 trillion more trees would counteract 10 years of anthropogenic CO 2 emissions. [22]
It's also consistently ranked in the top 3 countries for highest rate of deforestation. [27] In the last 50 years, Indonesia has lost over 40% of its mangrove forests, [ 28 ] affecting not only the environment and species that rely on them but also the communities that depend on this ecosystem for survival.
Countries will need close to 3 billion acres (1.2 billion hectares) of land to fulfill their current climate pledges, thanks to their focus on techniques like planting new trees over tougher but ...
According to IUCN, more than 5,000 of the tree species on the Red List are used for timber in construction. Over 2,000 species are used for medicines, food and fuels.
Russia has the largest forest area in the world, at 815 million hectares (a fifth of global forest cover). The other four countries all house more than 100 million hectares of forest each. The small African nation of Gabon, while only containing 0.58% of the world's forest cover, has the largest forest-to-land ratio of any country (91.3%). [4]
The survey counted over 36 million dead trees, which is a dramatic increase, but there still may be more that were not counted. In a dramatic spike, 36.3 million trees died in California last year ...
It was founded in Kenya on 22 July 1922 by Richard St. Barbe Baker as Men of the Trees. [1] It operates in several countries in Africa and in the United Kingdom. [2] There have been chapters in over 100 countries. By some estimates, organizations he founded or assisted have been responsible for planting at least 26 billion trees ...