Global deforestation is still at an alarming rate

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said on November 14 that global deforestation is decreasing, but the forest is still disappearing at an alarming rate.

FAO said that in the global forest resource assessment that the world lost 7.3 million hectares of forest every year, accounting for 0.18% of the Young People Onlined global forest area between 2000 and 2005.

This organization also said that this rate decreased compared to the period from 1990 to 2000, with 8.9 million hectares of forest disappeared annually.

South America is the region with the worst deforestation due to deforestation activities in the last 5 years, losing 4.3 million hectares of forest each year, followed by Africa with 4 million hectares of forest disappearing. year.

The assessment also lists ten countries including Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Indonesia, Peru, Russia and the United States, which now have two-thirds of their total area. forest all over the world.

T.VY ( According to Xinhua )