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The forest 20192/16/2023 ![]() The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Indonesia followed, losing 475,000 hectares and 324,000 hectares, respectively. The new data include total forest cover losses but focus on tropical primary forests, which typically hold the most carbon and biodiversity, making their loss especially damaging to the environment.Īs in years past, Brazil lost the most primary forest by far in 2019 - 1,361,000 hectares. Indonesia and Malaysia lost less tree cover in 2019 than the year before but continued to suffer some of the heaviest primary forest losses in the world, new data based on US satellite imagery show.Ĭambodia and Laos also made the global top 10 and saw the sharpest spikes in year-on-year forest loss in Southeast Asia, according to images analyzed by the University of Maryland and released today by Global Forest Watch, a project of the US-based World Resources Institute. ![]()
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