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General trend that can be seen is that forest area in developed regions shows positive changes, where as regions dominated by developing countries show negative trends – Africa & South America in specific.
Africa leads the pack in losing the forest cover – it lost 9% of its forest area and accounted for 51% of net forest area lost in world during the period.
In the Asian continent Asia and pacific regions has slightly increased it forest area, though there was a marginal net loss for the continent as a whole. The performance of East Asia was positive, driven mainly by large investment in forest development in China.
Forest area in US and Canada are stable and many countries in Europe have reported net increase in forest areas. Reasons being strong forest institutions and welcome changes in forest policies.
Latin America and Caribbean regions along with Africa are one of the major contributors of net loss in world forest area.
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