Earth's Forests Are Vanishing at a Slower Pace, FAO Says
- Legislation, management, better policies helping forests
- Forested area size of South Africa still lost since 1990
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The world’s forests are disappearing at a slower pace as protection and management by governments improve, a United Nations agency said.
“We’re making progress,” Jose Graziano da Silva, director general of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said Monday in the South African coastal city of Durban. “The net rate of global deforestation has slowed by more than 50 percent over the past 25 years.”