Saturday, March 27, 2010

Global deforestation: Wood through the trees


Global deforestation decreases, but still remains high

THE pace at which the world’s forests are vanishing has slackened over the past decade but it is still alarming, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, a UN agency. Between 2000 and 2010, the net loss of forest was 5.2m hectares per year, compared with 8.3m in the previous decade.

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