Precise figures on total forest area were not available.
The intensification of dry conditions has increased the frequency of forest fires, which cut total forest area by 0.46% annually.
At that rate, half of total forest area would be cleared or severely degraded by 2021, a major threat to the isolated cultures in its interior.
Among the 10 countries are Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Madagascar, which last year lost 2% of its total forest area to agriculture, mining and the timber industry.
However, the region holds almost a quarter of the world's total forest area (World Bank 2012).
71% of the total forest area was represented in the distribution of Gundlach's Hawk.
Total forest area, forest proportion and mean stand size increase from west to east in the four regions.
Table 2 Total core and degraded forest types for 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015, with percent of total forest area.
During the period 1973 2010, Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, has lost ~31% of the total forest area [2].
In Russia, more than 16 million ha of planted forests contributed only 2% of the total forest area.
The majority of the forests in China are young and middle-aged, occupying 65%% of the total forest area.
