From Page 4, Key Findings, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010, from UN FAO, link below.
The Economist: Global Deforestation: Wood Through the Trees
"The pace at which the world's forests are vanishing has slackened over the past decade but it is still alarming, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, a UN agency. Between 2000 and 2010, the net loss of forest was 5.2m hectares per year, compared with 8.3m in the previous decade. South America and Africa had the biggest net annual decrease over the past decade--at 4m and 3.4m hectares respectively. But tree-planting programmes in China, India, Vietnam and the United States helped to offset this. Most of these programmes are due to end in 2020, and the current situation is at best a "short window of opportunity" to stop the disappearance of forests, says the co-ordinator of this year's quin-annual assessment."
BBC: Forest loss slows as China plants, Brazil preserves
"The world's net rate of forest loss has slowed markedly in the last decade, with less logging in the Amazon and China planting trees on a grand scale. Yet forests continue to be lost at "an alarming rate" in some countries, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Its Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 finds the loss of tree cover is most acute in Africa and South America. But Australia also suffered huge losses because of the recent drought...."
UNFAO: "World deforestation decreases, but remains alarming in many countries"
UNFAO: Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010
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