The equivalent of 30 football fields is disappearing every minute of every day, according to researchers.
Last year humanity destroyed an expanse of tropical forest nearly the size of England, the third largest decline since global satellite data become available in 2001, researchers reported Thursday.
“For the first time, we can distinguish tree cover loss within undisturbed natural rainforests, which contain trees that can be hundreds, even thousands, of years old,” team manager Mikaela Weisse told AFP. Global forest loss peaked in 2016, fuelled in part by El Nino weather conditions and uncontrolled fires in Brazil and Indonesia.
One bright spot in the report was Indonesia, which lost 3,400 km2 of primary forest in 2018 — a 63 percent drop compared to 2016.
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