PARIS: The world lost 10 football fields of old-growth tropical forest every minute in 2023 and despite uplifting progress in the Amazon, the picture elsewhere is less rosy, researchers said on Thursday (Apr 4).
A forest burns in the Amazon in the municipality of Manaquiri in Brazil's Amazonas state, on Sep 6, 2023. PARIS: The world lost 10 football fields of old-growth tropical forest every minute in 2023 and despite uplifting progress in the Amazon, the picture elsewhere is less rosy, researchers said on Thursday .
"Impressive" declines in Brazil and Colombia were"largely counteracted by increases" in tropical forest lost elsewhere, said Mikaela Weisse from WRI, a nonprofit research organisation. But there was good news from Brazil, which lost 36 per cent less primary forest than the year prior - its lowest level since 2015.
In Colombia, where President Gustavo Petro has been trying to negotiate peace with armed groups, there was a roughly 50 per cent decline in forest lost in a year."The 2023 data shows that countries can cut rates of forest loss when they muster the political will to do so. But we also know that progress can be reversed when political winds change," said Rod Taylor, global director of forests at WRI.
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