Could global forest cover be one of the collateral victims of Sars-CoV-2? According to satellite data collected by Glad (Global Land Analysis and Discovery) and compiled by WWF, deforestation has increased by 77% compared to the 2017-2019 average. The forests of Indonesia have paid the heaviest price with a loss of 130,000 hectares in 2020, an area a little larger than that of the city of Paris; in 2019, 45,000 hectares had been deforested. Then come the forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with a loss of 100,000 hectares in 2020, against 43,000 in 2019. The Amazon is also very affected, since 473,100 hectares have disappeared since the beginning of the year.
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The cause (at least in part) in this increase in deforestation, the economic and health crisis due to the Covid-19 epidemic. In many places, populations have been plunged into a difficult situation, explains WWF. Without perspective
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