% Change in Tropical Rainforest Loss

In 2022, the world lost 4.1 million hectares of tropical primary rainforest—the equivalent of losing 11 football fields of rainforest per minute. Despite international commitments to end deforestation, forest loss rapidly increased in countries like Ghana, and Bolivia, while strict government policies drove record-low levels of forest decline in Indonesia and Malaysia.

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