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This sad conclusion was made by independent experts. Global Forest Watch, a monitoring organization forest areas using global satellite imagery.
As GFW experts stated with undisguised anxiety, in last year, our planet lost forests with an area of Italy – More than 29 million hectares. This is the highest rate after start monitoring. Unfortunately, the current year may present more more significant “surprise” in this regard. Here is what the expert writes about it GFW Guardian:
Over the past fifteen years the annual loss of forest cover doubled, for example, doubled cutting down valuable for rainforest planets. In first place for forest destruction in Congo is currently standing, followed by Colombia. True, the situation in Indonesia has improved somewhat, which until recently retained leadership in this lawlessness, but now ten world palm oil producers agree to environmentalists (not without pressure, of course, from the government of the country) is no longer expand plantations. But such positive points are a drop in the ocean irresponsibility and real crime towards the forest.
The main reason for the disappearance of forests, emphasizes Global Forest Watch, is the expansion of areas under soybean crops, pastures, losses associated with the production of palm oil and so Further. But a lot of forests are cut down with the aim of obtaining wood. And in most cases, forests are cut down illegally, which is connected with corruption and global criminal activity in relation to ecology of the planet.
Suffice it to say, the Guardian continues, that today a lot of talk is about global warming or if more precisely, global climate change on Earth, while only 2 percent of all funded activities to combat this evil aimed at protecting the forest. And this despite the fact that care and truly effective conservation of forests on the planet could would provide up to a 50 percent reduction in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and means to completely prevent the environmental that is approaching us disaster. But nobody needs it, we put out the fire in the house, figuratively saying a teaspoon, that is, we are engaged in self-deception.
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We also note that many forests in the world are dying from forest fires. Among the leaders in this regard are the United States and Russia. For example, today such fires burn in the Far East, where more than a hundred burn out per day thousand hectares. The main share of losses is in Yakutia (Republic of Sakha) – 97 percent.
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