WASHINGTON, March 5 — Forests are central to biodiversity and the fight against climate change, as well as being a big money spinner for national economies. But they are in...
WASHINGTON, March 5 — Forests are central to biodiversity and the fight against climate change, as well as being a big money spinner for national economies.As politicians, including French President Emmanuel Macron, prepare to descend on the West African nation of Gabon for an international summit on forests, AFP looks at how green our globe really is.
Forests can be found in many climates but three-quarters are either in the tropics or in a ring around the North Pole .Four-fifths of the world’s amphibian species live in forests, as do three-quarters of bird species, 68 per cent of mammal species and many of the 60,000 kinds of trees found on Earth.
They contain 662 billion tonnes of carbon, more than half of all the carbon found in soil and vegetation. But it warns in its latest report on forests that they could start emitting carbon rather than absorbing it if deforestation is not halted.
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