New data show world lost a Switzerland-size area of primary rainforest in 2019

Mongabay
Jun 2, 2020, 10:07 pm199 pts
Last year the world lost some 119,000 square kilometers (45,946 square miles) of tree cover – an area the size of Nicaragua – according to satellite data collated by the University of Maryland (UMD) released today by World Resources Institute (WRI). Almost a third of that loss – or an area the size of…

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