Sentences with phrase «global forest cover»

This increases current estimates of global forest cover by at least 9 %.

A sharp increase in forest fires stoked record losses in global forest cover equivalent to the area of New Zealand in 2016, a Global Forest Watch report said Monday.

Click here to view the most recent Forest Cover Indicator and Data Global forest cover is a key indicator of the health of the planet.

According to WRI research, 30 percent of global forest cover has been cleared, while another 20 percent has been degraded.

A new estimate of dryland forests suggests that the global forest cover is at least 9 % higher than previously thought.

But the longest data series of annual figures available from the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization shows that global forest cover has in fact increased, to 30.89 percent in 1994 from 30.04 percent of global land cover in 1950.

Changes in the extent of IFLs were identified within year 2000 IFL boundary using the global wall - to - wall Landsat image composite for year 2013 and the global forest cover loss dataset (Hansen et al., 2013).

«To «find» an area of forest that represents 10 percent of the global forest cover is very very significant, with broad consequences for global carbon budgeting and dryland restoration and management,» says Professor Andrew Lowe, Chair of Plant Conservation Biology at the University of Adelaide.

We've even seen some reports that global forest cover is set for a resurgence.