The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported on November 14 that global deforestation is gradually decreasing, but forest loss remains at an alarming level.
The FAO stated in its Global Forest Resources Assessment that the world is losing 7.3 million hectares of forest each year, which accounts for 0.18% of the global forest area between 2000 and 2005, according to Tuổi Trẻ Online.
This rate has decreased compared to the period from 1990 to 2000, when 8.9 million hectares of forest were lost annually.
South America is the region most severely affected by deforestation, with 4.3 million hectares of forest lost each year due to logging activities over the past five years, followed by Africa, which loses 4 million hectares of forest annually.
The assessment also lists 10 countries—Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Indonesia, Peru, Russia, and the United States—that collectively account for two-thirds of the world’s total forest area.
T.VY (According to Xinhua)
