Like siblings said : it's not a good benchmark, as forests were not exploited as much before. In fact, almost all forests are exploited in some way or another.

Like siblings said : it's not a good benchmark, as forests were not exploited as much before. In fact, almost all forests are exploited in some way or another. Some recently protected primal old growth will take a few centuries to recover. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-growth_forest https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-growth_forest "The world has 1.11 billion ha of primary forest remaining.[when?] Combined, three countries (Brazil, Canada, and Russia) host more than half (61 percent) of the world's primary forest. The area of primary forest has decreased by 81 million ha since 1990, but the rate of loss more than halved in 2010–2020 compared with the previous decade."