In the years 2000-2010, Africa’s deforestation was reduced to half in comparison to the period 1990-2000, according to a JRC article in the special-themed issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B on Africa’s rainforests, co-edited by the JRC.
‘State and evolution of the African rainforests between 1990 and 2010′ presents a new state-of-the-art map of the current extent of Africa’s rainforests, accompanied with deforestation measurements, and explores the patterns and drivers of change over those 20 years.
