{"id":4176,"date":"2019-04-26T13:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T08:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=4176"},"modified":"2019-04-26T13:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T08:15:24","slug":"worlds-forests-in-emergency-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worlds-forests-in-emergency-room\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s forests in \u2018emergency room\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A study conducted by Global forest watch has\nrevealed that climate change has destroyed about 12 million hectares of\ntropical forests in 2018. The research was led by US-based World Resources\nInstitute.<\/li><li>Global Forest Watch is an online forest monitoring\nand alert system. It seeks to empower people globally to better manage forests.<\/li><li>The study has reported that nearly 25% of\ntropical tree cover loss took place in Brazil alone, while Democratic Republic\nof Congo and Indonesia accounted for 10% each. High levels of deforestation was\nalso recorded in Malaysia and Madagascar.<\/li><li>The study has also noted ne deforestation\nhotspots particularly in Africa, where illegal mining, small-scale forest\nclearing and the expansion of cocoa farms led to an increase in tree loss.\nExamples: Ghana and the Ivory Coast.<\/li><li>For the first time, researchers had also\ncalculate the loss of undisturbed natural rainforest using satellite data. The\nhighest loss has been accounted in Brazil followed by DR&gt; Congo, Indonesia,\nColombia and Bolivia.<\/li><li>However, on a positive note, the study has\nhighlighted that the primary forest loss in Indonesia has slowed down for the\nsecond year in running, dropping by 63% compared to 2017. This is primarily\nafter the government has imposed a prohibition on forest clearing.<\/li><li>The study has highlighted the paramount\nimportance of forest cover- a) help regulate weather patterns, b) prevent\nflooding and erosion, c) provide food, water and shelter, d) provides oxygen,\ne) absorbs 30% of global man-made greenhouse gas emissions and f) oceans aside,\nhave the greatest biodiversity on the planet.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study conducted by Global forest watch has revealed that climate change has destroyed about 12 million hectares of tropical forests in 2018. The research was led by US-based World Resources Institute. Global Forest Watch is an online forest monitoring and alert system. It seeks to empower people globally to better manage forests. The study&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/worlds-forests-in-emergency-room\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World\u2019s forests in \u2018emergency room\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4346,4347],"class_list":["post-4176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-deforestation","tag-global-forest-watch-study","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704923050},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}