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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports (2005) that the Earth's total forest area continues to decrease at about
- 13 million hectares (32.5 million acres) per year. Or
- 250 000 hectares (625 000 acres) per week. Or
- 35 714 hectares (89 000 acres) per day. Or
- 1488 hectares (3720 acres) an hour. Or
- 25 hectares (62 acres) a minute. Or
- 0.4 hectares (1 acre) every second.
An American Football field measures 0.53 ha (1.32 acres). So about 4 football fields every 5 seconds!
Many people think the actual figure is much higher, because these figures were provided by each country, and may not include illegal logging.
A report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.: The State of the World's Forests 2003 notes the percentage of forest lost between 1990 and 2000.
Burundi (15 000 hectares, 9%) and Haiti lost the most (7 000, 5.7%).
Some countries increased their forest cover. Among them:
- Israel 4.9% increase
- Ireland 3%
- Cuba 1.3%
- China 1.2%
- UK 0.6%
- New Zealand 0.5%
- USA 0.2%
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