Approximately one third of the forests outside current conservation areas were disturbed by forest management by 2013, and remaining forests were notably more fragmented than forests within conservation areas.
Roughly one-third of the forest is still wooded, the rest heathland; and this route swings you by 500-year-old oaks, redwoods and the stupendous blaze of azalea and rhododendrons at Rhinefield House in late May and early June.
At the current rate of deforestation, around one-third of the forest in Amazonas will have been lost by 2050, releasing a colossal 3.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.Novo Aripuanã is the site of a novel response to this threat: the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve, an area of 600,000 hectares (1.2m acres) bordered by two highways.
Two-thirds of the forest elephants have been killed in the last decade.
Products have changed, however, and by the early 21st century only two-fifths of the forest income was from lumber.
In the last decade alone, this has resulted in ivory poachers killing around two thirds of the forest elephants that have lived safely among the trees for millennia.
OXFORD: ARSON SUSPECTED IN FOREST FIRE -- A suspicious fire in the Naugatuck State Forest involved more than two-thirds of the forest over the weekend but was under control yesterday, the authorities said.
There's also a new edict from the central forestry ministry whereby communities will be able to bulldoze up to a fifth of the forest in their locality for agriculture or plantation use.
This is about one-fourth of the forest conversion emission factor in this AEZ.
Two-thirds of the forest elephants in Africa have been poached in the last 10 years.
