This article is a list of countries by forest area.
Planet, continents and regions
All areas are given in units of 1000
hectare
The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100- metre sides (1 hm2), or 10,000 m2, and is primarily used in the measurement of land. There are 100 hectares in one square kilometre. An acre is ...
s. Source:
Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...
Countries and territories
All areas are given in units of 1000 hectares. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
See also
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Deforestation by continent
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Forest cover by state and territory in the United States In the United States, the forest cover by state and territory is estimated from tree-attributes using the basic statistics reported by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service. Tree volumes and weights are not directly ...
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Forest cover by state in India List of how many forests and percentage of forest cover in India by state.
Tree density
Tree density is the quantification of how closely the trees are growing in a hectare area. It is not the exact number of trees in the forest but, serves as an e ...
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Forest cover by federal subject in Russia The forest cover in Russia by federal subject as published by the Unified Interdepartmental Statistical Information System. As of 2021 49.4% of Russia is covered in trees.
See also
*List of countries by forest area
References
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Forest cover by province or territory in Canada Provinces
*British Columbia: ~60%
*Alberta: 58% (NAIT)
*Saskatchewan: 50% (SK Environmental Society)
*Manitoba: 48% (MB Forestry Branch)
*Ontario: 66% (Ontario Forest Industries Association)
*Quebec: 45% (McGill University)
*Nova Scotia: ...
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Forest cover by state or territory in Australia {{unreferenced, date=September 2010
The percent of Australian states covered in closed-canopy forest. Adding open woodland, these figures may be much higher.
States
*Western Australia: ~16%
*South Australia: ~9%
*Victoria: ~16%
*New South Wales: ~ ...
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Forest Landscape Integrity Index
The Forest Landscape Integrity Index (FLII) is an annual global index of forest condition measured by degree of anthropogenic modification. Created by a team of 48 scientists, the FLII, in its measurement of 300m pixels of forest across the globe ...
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Forest restoration
Forest restoration is defined as “actions to re-instate ecological processes, which accelerate recovery of forest structure, ecological functioning and biodiversity levels towards those typical of climax forest” i.e. the end-stage of natural ...
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List of countries by forest area (percentage)
This article is a list of countries by forest area.
Planet, continents and regions
All areas are given in units of 1000 hectares. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization
Countries and territories
All areas are given in units of 1000 h ...
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Reforestation
Reforestation (occasionally, reafforestation) is the natural or intentional restocking of existing forests and woodlands (forestation) that have been depleted, usually through deforestation, but also after clearcutting.
Management
A debat ...
Sources
This article incorporates text from Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. See
c:File:Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 – Key findings.pdf. .
References
External links
Global Forest Resources Assessmentat FAO
Forest dataat FAO
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