Deferestation Statistics

Question 1

What does the FAO estimate?

Answer 1

13million ha of the world’s forests are cut down and converted to other land uses every year.
This is an area the size of Greece

Question 2

What has reduced the net loss of total forest area?

Answer 2

Planting of trees to establish forests or expand into abandoned agricultural land.

Question 3

What was the estimated net loss of the world’s forests each year between 1990-2000?

Answer 3

In the period 1990 to 2000 the world is estimated to have suffered a net loss of 8.9 million hectares of forest each year.

Question 4

What was the yearly net forest loss between 2000-2005?

Answer 4

7.3 million hectares of forest per year were lost

Question 5

What percentage of the world’s forests were lost between 1990 and 2005?

Answer 5

3%

Question 6

What is the current rate of deforestation?

Answer 6

200km2 of forest each day

Question 7

What would happen to the rainforest if deforestation continued at the current rate?

Answer 7

The world’s rainforest could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation.