{"id":31506,"date":"2013-11-15T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:44:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:44:02","slug":"6506-global-deforestation-1-hot-spots-in-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/nature\/6506-global-deforestation-1-hot-spots-in-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Global deforestation: 10 hot spots in pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earth has lost more than half a million square miles of forest between 2000 and 2012. Analysis of 650,000 satellite images, published in the journal Science<\/a>, reveal the extent of loss and recovery – Brazil’s success in the Amazon is offset by deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Zambia and Angola. <\/p>\n

The colour-coded maps<\/a> below show changes from ten areas around the world: green is forest cover, red is lost forest, blue is forest gained and pink is forests both lost and gained in the period.<\/p>\n

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\nBrazil<\/strong>
\nDeforestation in the Amazon decreased between 2004 and 2012, but between August 2012 and July 2013 it increased by 28%<\/a>. However, the deforestation, driven in part by loggers turning forest into ranch land for cattle, is still at its second lowest level ever. 
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\nBolivia<\/strong>
\nThe country (on the west in this photo) may not be well-known internationally as a deforestation hotspot. But its rainforests, which have been the focus of a UN scheme to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation<\/a>, have been being chopped down at a frightening rate. The rate of deforestation increased by 4.4% between 2000 and 2005<\/a>. Soya production and cattle ranchingare two of the main causes<\/a>.
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\nAlaska<\/strong>
\nThe wildnerness of the Alaska interior region’s coniferous forests glows bright red from above. 
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\n\"\"
\nCanada<\/strong>
\nTwo-thirds of the country’s boreal deforestation has taken place in the Saskatchewan province, as the bright red cluster here shows. Agriculture, mining and attendant road-building are the big causes<\/a>. 
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\nUK<\/strong>
\nBoth Wales and Scotland have suffered deforestation between 2000 and 2012 – England has too, but less obviously so because it lost most of its forest cover many centuries ago – but it is notable that there are flashes of red even in national parks, such as the Yorkshire Dales.
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\nFrance<\/strong>
\nCyclone Klaus is largely to blame for destroying a huge swathe of the Landes forest<\/a>, south of Bordeaux, which glows bright red here. The blue spots reflect replanting efforts<\/a>.
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\nIndonesia<\/strong>
\nPerhaps the most infamous deforestation spot on the planet (lower left island on this map), despite a moratorium on the felling of rainforest, introduced in 2011. Palm oil plantations have largely been blamed for the country’s deforestation – which has made the country one of the world’s biggest carbon emitters. The country is losing around the same amount of forest as Brazil annually, despite being only a quarter of the size.
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\nRussia<\/strong>
\nThe Russian far east could be entirely logged by the end of the next decade, according to a study by the Beijing Forestry University. As these images show, there has been some substantial afforestation, too. 
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\nCambodia and Vietnam<\/strong>
\nBoth countries were highlighted in a report earlier this year as suffering a ‘plague of deforestation’<\/a>, driven by illegal logging.
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\n\"\"
\nAustralia<\/strong>
\nWestern Australia was one of the first parts of the continent to lose its trees, in the nineteenth century, a trend that accelerated due to farming in the middle of the twentieth century<\/a>, but there have still been deforestation hotspots this century. <\/p>\n

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