News Headline
World deforestation slows down as more forests are better managed
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome)
Publication Date
2015-09-08
7 September 2015, Durban/Rome - The world's forests continue to shrink as populations increase and forest land is converted to agriculture and other uses, but over the past 25 years the rate of net global deforestation has slowed down by more than 50 percent, FAO said in a report published today.