by Matteo Cavallito<\/p>\n
Deforestation is growing in the Philippines<\/strong>. The issue has been highlighted<\/a> by the news network Quartz<\/em>\u00a0 quoting data from Global Forest Watch, a project sponsored by the U.S.-based nonprofit organization World Resources Institute. Between 2002 and 2021, the country lost 158 thousand hectares<\/strong> of primary forests in addition to 1.34 million hectares of tree cover<\/strong> (7.2 percent of the total).<\/p>\n The events are part of a worrisome global picture<\/a>. Despite a slower rate of destruction – \u201cThe rate at which our forests are disappearing slowed by nearly 30 per cent from the first decade of the century to the period from 2010-2018\u201d, according to<\/a> FAO<\/strong> – world forests remain endangered under the pressure of the expansion of grazing areas and croplands such as oil palm plantations in Asia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n