Scary fact: Forests the size of 11 football fields are disappearing every minute

The 2022 analysis by GFW, the World Resources Institute-backed online forest monitoring and warning platform, noted that the international community is lagging behind the Glasgow Declaration targets signed at the 26th United Nations Conference Nations on Climate Change (COP26) in 2021.

Rod Taylor, Director of the Forest Program at the World Resources Institute, said: “Are we on track to stop deforestation by 2030? The short answer is a simple no. saying.

Stating that deforestation in 2022 is 1 million hectares more than the level needed to meet the 2030 targets, Taylor noted that the trend is going in the “wrong direction.”

According to the data, forest areas the size of 11 football fields were destroyed every minute last year. Forest areas destroyed by felling or burning reached 4 million hectares.

Although Brazil was the country with the most destruction with 1.77 million hectares, it was followed by the Democratic Republic of the Congo with 513 thousand hectares, Bolivia with 386 thousand hectares and Indonesia with 230 thousand hectares. (AA)