Why is the world losing its forests? | Inside Story
A report by Global Forest Watch says the earth lost a staggering 11-point-one million hectares of forest last year. Wildfires fanned by global warming, and human activity like logging and farming, are causing our forests to shrink ever further. The losses includes nearly 4-million hectares of tropical rainforest – critical to capturing carbon dioxide. The rate of tropical deforestation last year was equivalent to 10 football pitch every minute. All that, despite a pledge by more than 100 countries to end and reverse deforestation by the year 2030. So, what can stop deforestation? Presenter: Laura Kyle Guests: Frances Seymour – Distinguished Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute. Wessel Van Eeden – Global Communications Director at justdiggit, an organization working to restore trees and landscape in Africa. Michael Jacobs – Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sheffield. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #InsideStory #Forests
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