10 Countries With the Highest Deforestation Rates

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10 Countries With the Highest Deforestation Rates

Hopefully, it comes as no great surprise to you that deforestation is a major problem in many areas of the world, both in terms of preserving biodiversity and preventing climate change -- some countries are chopping down their forests at astonishing rates. But what you may not know is which nations really have the highest rates of deforestation, so here they are: When considering all these, for sake of comparison, even though Brazil gets a lot of the heat for Amazonian deforestation -- and rightly so, considering the total area of land cleared -- as a percentage of landmass cleared it isn't even in the top twenty. Over the past twenty years or so the deforestation rate has been 8% and over 70% of historic forest cover remains.

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