Published by: Inside Climate News May 19, 2021
The Forest Trends report shows a 50 percent increase in deforestation of tropical woodlands, most of it for agriculture and much of it illegal, since the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests.
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An environmental activist inspects an illegally clearcut forest that was razed to make way for a plantation in Riau province on the Eastern Coast of Sumatra, Indonesia in August, 2014. Credit: Michael Kodas