Global forest cover shrinking by 20,000 hectares a day
Jan 20th, 2010 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
Global forest cover shrank between 1990 and 2005 by three per cent. That corresponds to an average annual loss of 0.2 per cent or 20,000 hectares a day. As an examination of the Ifo Institute shows, the development of forested areas is regionally quite different. A particularly large amount of forest area has been cleared in recent years in tropical countries especially Brazil, Indonesia and Sudan.