The world is losing its mangroves

Mangrove forests occur naturally in intertidal zones along sheltered shorelines and in deltas in tropical regions. They are vital breeding grounds for fish and…

Major producers of soya beans and sugar cane

Some of the most serious deforestation occurs when there are various commodity booms at the domestic and international levels. At such times farmers and…

Socio economic indicators for the legal Amazon region

Indigenous land in Amazonia

Trends in area of productive forest plantations

In 2005, 2.8% of total global forest cover was made up of productive forest plantations, amounting to an area of approximately 110 million hectares…

The Kola Peninsula under threat from deadly emissions

Drivers of forest conversion

Average annual rate of change

Smoke over South East Asia on 11 September 1997

Future expansion of palm oil in Indonesia

Conversion to agriculture, including the recent expansion in the area devoted to oil palm plantations, continues to be the main cause of forest loss…

Changing global forest cover

Forests can undergo changes in various ways. Forest areas can be reduced either by deforestation or by natural disasters, which can result in the…

Worst case scenario for the Amazon forest

2050 global climate change has already contributed to rising temperatures in the Amazon which, when combined with deforestation, have led to a cycle of…