FOREST

Vanishing cover

BETWEEN 2000 and 2012, the world lost more forest area than it gained -a net loss of 3.76 million sq km of interior forest area .what's worse,core forest areas--- remote interior areas critical for disturbance sensitive wildlife and ecological processes are vanishing even faster. There is also a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition . Down To Earth 1-15 March ,2016