As deforestation and wildfires driven by a changing climate continue to take their toll on the world's forests, a new study has found that the global forest area per capita has fallen by more than 60 per cent over the past few decades.
As deforestation and wildfires driven by a changing climate take their toll on the world's forests, a new study has found that the global forest area per capita has fallen by more than 60 per cent over the past few decades.Environmental Research Letters on Monday
. From 1960 to 2019, the researchers say global forest area had declined by 81.7 million hectares, which is slightly larger than the entire island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. When factoring in the growth of the world's population, that loss in forest area over the past 60 years represents a 60 per cent decrease per capita."The continuous loss and degradation of forests affects the integrity of forest ecosystems, reducing their ability to generate and provide essential services and sustain biodiversity. It also impacts the lives of at least 1.
In lower income countries, forest gains were overwhelmingly outweighed by forest losses. More than half of the world's forest losses were in Brazil, home to the Amazon rainforest. In the last 60 years, the country had a net loss of 43.9 million hectares of forest area.
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