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    carbon storage. The direct cause of most deforestation is agriculture by far. More than 80% of deforestation was attributed to agriculture in 2018. Forests...
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    the rate of deforestation continued to increase to an estimated 840,000 hectares in 2012, surpassing deforestation in Brazil. Deforestation in Indonesia...
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    annual deforestation is estimated to total 13.7 million hectares a year, similar to the area of Greece. Half of the area experiencing deforestation consists...
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    isolated. Large scale deforestation is occurring in the forest, creating different harmful effects. Economic losses due to deforestation in Brazil could be...
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  • Thumbnail for Deforestation and climate change
    greenhouse gas inventories give similar results for deforestation emissions. As of 2019[update], deforestation is responsible for about 11% of global greenhouse...
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    000 km2). Deforestation affects biodiversity in the Philippines and has long-term negative impacts on the country's food production. Deforestation in the...
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    infrastructure development contribute to deforestation and present various challenges against afforestation efforts. Deforestation in Nigeria has raised concerns...
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    Conference, 67 ministers signed up to help achieve zero net deforestation by 2020. Due to deforestation the Amazon was a net emitter of greenhouse gas in the...
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    countries, notably Brazil, have declared their deforestation a national emergency. Amazon deforestation jumped by 69% in 2008 compared to 2007's twelve...
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    of 2014. The deforestation rate of Myanmar has declined from 0.95% per year in the years 1990–2010 to about 0.3% per year and deforestation in Myanmar is...
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    forest loss, where world annual deforestation is estimated as 13.7 million hectares (34×10^6 acres) a year. Deforestation started with the growth of agriculture...
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    cause of deforestation, accounting for about 80% of all deforestation in the region. This makes it the world's largest single driver of deforestation, contributing...
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    Mining has also contributed to deforestation, particularly in the recent years, representing up to 6% of national deforestation (2017), with large clear cuts...
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    reducing their levels of deforestation (through valuing the carbon that is stored in forests); a concept termed 'avoided deforestation (AD) or, REDD if broadened...
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  • term "deforestation" was originally coined by Philip Wadler in his 1990 paper "Deforestation: transforming programs to eliminate trees". Deforestation is...
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    of Agent Orange in Vietnam Deforestation in Laos Deforestation in Cambodia Butler, Rhett A. "Nigeria has worst deforestation rate, FAO revises figures"...
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    drinks and oils. West Africa is greatly affected by deforestation and has one of worst deforestation rate. Even "the beloved baobab tree" which is viewed...
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    negatively effect socioeconomic outcomes. Deforestation is a major cause of environmental change. Deforestation can be attributed to population growth,...
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  • Thumbnail for Deforestation in Borneo
    Deforestation in Borneo has taken place on an industrial scale since the 1960s. Borneo, the third largest island in the world, divided between Indonesia...
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    have been damaged. The largest environmental issue in Sulawesi is deforestation. In 2007, scientists found that 80 percent of Sulawesi's forest had...
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    Deforestation in Haiti is a complex and intertwined environmental and social problem. The most-recent national research on charcoal estimates that approximately...
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    This amounts to an average annual deforestation rate of 1.90%. However, between 2000 and 2005, the rate of deforestation decreased by 28.9% to 1.35% per...
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    land area, but deforestation is an increasingly pressing issue, resulting in forests disappearing quickly. The rate of deforestation in the country accelerated...
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    Deforestation in Thailand refers to the conversion of its forested land to other uses. Deforestation numbers are inexact due to the scope of the issue...
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    2015[update], the country has one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. Deforestation has directly resulted from poorly managed commercial logging...
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    (2020-08-15). "Pakistan's deforestation rate second highest in Asia: WWF". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2023-09-21. "Deforestation in Pakistan". 2021-01-25. Retrieved...
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    Deforestation in Madagascar is an ongoing environmental issue. Deforestation creates agricultural or pastoral land but can also result in desertification...
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    000 hectares. The government, however, reported a deforestation rate double this figure. Deforestation results from clearing forestland for shifting cultivation...
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    still similar to its long history of deforestation. Some of the current drivers that are increasing deforestation categorize into technological, economic...
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    The main causes of deforestation in Ethiopia are shifting agriculture, livestock production and fuel in drier areas. Deforestation is the process of removing...
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