Deforestation in Peru has been trending upward since the mid-2010s, according to data from the World Resource Institute’s Global Forest Watch. Primary forest loss reached 190,000 hectares in 2020, the highest level since at least 2002.
Peru has the fourth highest extent of tropical forest in the world, following Brazil, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia. It accounts for one-eighth of the tree cover in the Amazon rainforest.
Header image: A river in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler
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Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forests, Green, News brief, Rainforests, Redd, Saving Rainforests, Saving The Amazon, Tropical Forests
Amazon, Latin America, Peru, South America
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Publish date : 2021-06-04 03:00:00
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