Rate of global forest loss halved, says United Nations

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But deforestation continues, with an area the size of South Africa lost in the past 25 years

The world has lost an area of woodland the size of South Africa since 1990, despite a slowdown in the rate of deforestation, a major new United Nations report has found. According to the UN's Food and...

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