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Have you got a source for this? My understand is that it may have slowed, but we are yet to reverse hectares lost per year.
by pedalpete 11y ago
Have you got a source for this? My understand is that it may have slowed, but we are yet to reverse hectares lost per year.
- jessriedel 11y agoThat's what I mean by "almost stabilized". Global forest coverage is still decreasing, but at a rate that is clearly slowing. And since we see that coverage increases in rich countries, we tentatively conclude that the rate of global decrease will not equilibriate at some negative value, but rather will continue flattening and then turn upward as poor countries become rich. Furthermore, the low point of this process is not particularly bad; it forms a trough that bottoms out at ~4% decrease compared to current levels. This is the best I could find: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS/countries?display=graph http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS/countries...