Forests

ISSUES

Forests

The forest area represents a little less than 4 billion hectares, that is to say a third of the planet's surface area. This surface area is not spread equally. Over half of these forests are just in five countries: Russia, Brazil, Canada, the United States of America and China.
Every year, 13 million hectares of forest disappear. That is just over twenty football pitches a minute. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations considers the rate to be « alarming ». (1)
But if one takes the natural extension of some forests and plantations created by man into account, the net loss is « only » 7.3 million hectares for the 2000-2005 period.
The overall rate of deforestation has slightly slowed down in the past few years, partly thanks to the efforts of environmentalists. This is also due to the increasingly larger areas of plantations, particularly in China, and to the fact that the areas that are easier or more p...

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DEBATES

Russia is Burning

Yevgenia Albats

In early August, a journalist called the office of Moscow's mayor, seeking comments on the situation. “The office is closed,” a...

What’s Killing the Great Forests of the American West?

For many years, Diana Six, an entomologist at the...

Roads are ruining the rainforests

They are quite right. Roads are rainforest killers. Without...

INITIATIVE

Three Tibetan environmentalist brothers in Chinese jails

On July 3, 2010, the verdict was rendered: Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for “inciting separatism”; it was believed he supported the idea of a split between Tibet and China. This judgement came after his two brothers had...

VIDEOS

23/08/2010	The past decade is the warmest on record since instrumental measurements...	27/07/2010	More than 10 years Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, ICCO and WWF have...
15/06/2010	Avec son premier long-métrage, Marc Barrat. traite de la question de...	19/04/2010	It is another corn harvesting season in Pailin, a province in northwestern...

GREEN TIPS

Buy some rain forest

The British non-governmental organization Cool Earth uses the donations it receives to acquire rain forests...

INDICATORS

Forest cover
Biocapacity
National biodiversity index
Threatened ecosystems
Protected areas

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