Current Affairs Deforestation rate globally declined between 2015 and 2020

Deforestation rate globally declined between 2015 and 2020

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While forest area has declined all across the world in the past three decades, the rate of forest loss has decline due to the growth of sustainable managment.
The rate of forest loss in 2015-2020 declined to an estimated 10 million hectares (mha), down from 12 million hectares (mha) in 2010-2015, according to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FRA 2020).
The FRA 2020 was released by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on May 13, 2020.
The FRA 2020 has examined the status of, and trends in, more than 60 forest-related variables in 236 countries and territories in the period 1990–2020.
The world lost 178 mha of forest since 1990, an area the size of Libya, according to the report.
The rate of net forest loss declined from 7.8 mha per year in the decade 1990–2000 to 5.2 mha per year in 2000–2010 and 4.7 mha per year in 2010–2020.
Africa had the largest annual rate of net forest loss in 2010–2020, at 3.9 mha, followed by South America, at 2.6 mha.
The largest proportion of the world’s forests were tropical (45 per cent), followed by boreal, temperate and subtropical.
More than 54 per cent of the world’s forests were in only five countries — the Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, the United States of America and China.