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What is the status of the earth\'s forest system? |
| Answer» The total\xa0forest\xa0area is 4.06 billion hectares, or approximately 5 000m2\xa0(or 50 x 100m) per person, but\xa0forests\xa0are not equally distributed around the globe.\xa0Half of the\xa0forests\xa0that originally covered 48\xa0percent of the Earth\'s\xa0land surface are\xa0gone. Only one-fifth of the\xa0Earth\'s\xa0original\xa0forests\xa0remain pristine and undisturbed. In North America, more than half of the coastal temperate\xa0rainforests, once extending from California to Alaska, have been destroyed. | |