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51//Cutting Season_Secrets World’s of TreesTrends in Tropical Forests
Chapter 3TREND IN TROPICAL FORESTSThe 2010s opened with a concertedpush to reduce tropical deforestation by2020 as a way to achieve multiple objectives,including combatting climatechange, stabilizing forest-dependentlivelihoods and ecosystem services, andslowing species extinction rates. Thatambition, however, failed to meet itsmost basic target: Deforestation in the2010s far outpaced the rate of forestloss in the 2000s, rising at least 30%,according to two datasets developedby a team lead by Matthew Hansen ofthe University of Maryland. ▼ Hansen’sdata shows that tropical tree cover lossbetween 2010 and 2018 averaged 12 millionhectares per year, an increase from8.5 million hectares per year from 2002-2009. Tree cover loss, however, includesboth deforestation and activities withintree plantations, like cyclical harvestingand replanting. As a result, it is not acomplete indicator of what’s happeningin tropical forests, especially in countrieslike Malaysia and Indonesia thathave large industrial plantation sectors.Therefore, Hansen’s data on primaryforests, which excludes plantations,is a useful proxy for providing morecontext on tropical forest trends.“drylands”—areastoo dry to support largenumbers of trees—and most are consideredgrazing lands. There, goats, sheep,and cattle may harm what few trees areable to grow.
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