Photo: FAO/Giulio Napolitano
ITALY–(ENEWSPF)–7 September 2015 – While the world’s forests continue to shrink as populations increase and woodlands are converted to agriculture and other uses, over the past 25 years, the rate of net global deforestation has slowed down by more than 50 per cent, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in a report published today.
Some 129 million hectares of forest – an area almost equivalent in size…
