UN report: Rate of global forest loss halved
World is losing forests
Durban - Arab Today
The rate at which the world is losing its forests has been halved, but an area of woodland the size of South Africa has still been lost since 1990, a major UN report said Monday.
"Even though, globally, the extent of the world's forest continues to decline... the rate of net forest loss has been cut by over 50 percent," said the report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.
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