partner report The World Resources Institute and the University of Maryland reported a 10% reduction in rainforest area in 2022 compared to last year. The total loss was 4.1 million hectares, corresponding to Swiss territory. This resulted in the release of 2.7 gigatons of carbon dioxide.
Brazil leads the way in rainforest loss, increasing 15% in 2022, mostly in the Amazon region. The Republic of the Congo ranked second in terms of casualties, while rainforests declined rapidly in Ghana and Bolivia. However, Indonesia and Malaysia have managed to keep the rate of forest loss at historically low levels.
Experts say that despite the Glasgow Declaration of Forest and Land Management signed by 145 countries in 2021, in which they pledged to reduce deforestation to zero by the end of the decade, the area of deforestation continues to increase.
Biologists formerly in the forests of Ecuador discovered Gasteranthus, a flower species considered extinct since the early 1980s