Deforestation and Forest Loss
Deforestation and Forest Loss - Our World in Data
Globally, we deforest around ten million hectares of forest every year. That's an area the size of Portugal every year. Around half of this deforestation is ...
Deforestation and Forest Degradation | Threats | WWF
The primary causes of forest degradation are logging activities, livestock grazing, and the construction of roads.
Deforestation and forest degradation - resource - IUCN.org
Deforestation and forest degradation are the biggest threats to forests worldwide. Over half of the tropical forests worldwide have been destroyed since the ...
Forest Pulse: The Latest on the World's Forests
As some countries show political will to reduce forest loss and others do not, the frontiers of forest loss are shifting: the notable reductions ...
Global Deforestation Rates & Statistics by Country | GFW
In 2023, it lost 28.3 Mha of tree cover. ... Explore interactive charts and maps that summarize key statistics about global forests. Statistics and global ...
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.
Deforestation: causes and how the EU is tackling it | Topics
The rate of forest loss around the world is alarming. Some 420 million hectares of forest were lost due to deforestation between 1990 and ...
Forest Loss | Global Forest Review - World Resources Institute
Roughly 27 percent of tree cover loss since 2000 was likely to be deforestation, characterized by permanent loss of forest resulting in new, ...
Deforestation Fronts | WWF - Panda.org
Agriculture is the leading driver of deforestation globally. A growing global population and increased food consumption has led to many forests being converted ...
Global Forest Loss Remains High, Despite Recent Progress
The annual survey by the World Resources Institute, a research organization, found that the world lost 9.1 million acres of primary tropical ...
Conflicting Data: How Fast Is the World Losing its Forests? - Yale E360
Temporary losses from shifting cultivation make up 93 percent of forest cover loss in Africa, the study found, while permanent deforestation ...
2.1 Deforestation and forest degradation persist
Forests cover nearly one-third of the Earth's land surface but the area is shrinking despite efforts to halt deforestation and restore degraded lands.
what is the difference between deforestation and forest degradation?
The environmental impacts of deforestation are more severe and permanent than degradation. Just over one-quarter of loss is deforestation – the ...
Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of ...
The tropics continue to lose primary forest at an alarming rate, with an area of tree cover half the size of Panama disappearing in 2023.
Why deforestation matters—and what we can do to stop it
Since 1990, the world has lost more than 420 million hectares or about a billion acres of forest, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the ...
Fires - Global Deforestation Rates & Statistics by Country | GFW
In 2023, it lost 28.3 Mha of tree cover. ... Explore interactive charts and maps that summarize global rates of forest change. Statistics – including rankings of ...
Press Release: New Forest Analysis: Global Deforestation Veering ...
In 2022, 1.2 million hectares of forests were lost within forested key biodiversity areas worldwide — this represents a 30% decrease from the ...
State of the World's Forests 2020
Since 1990, it is estimated that 420 million hectares of forest have been lost through conversion to other land uses, although the rate of deforestation has ...
Classifying drivers of global forest loss - Science
Our results indicate that 27% of global forest loss can be attributed to deforestation through permanent land use change for commodity ...
Rate of Deforestation - The World Counts
Destruction of natural habitat and loss of species. Seventy percent of the world's plants and animals live in forests. · Deforestation major factor in global ...