Forest Monitoring, Land Use & Deforestation TrendsThe Yanomami, an indigenous people in the northern Amazon rainforest, were attacked by illegal gold miners several times in recent weeks, leaving several people wounded and two young children dead With tens of thousands of miners still illegally occupying their land, the threat of continued violence remains ArticleSoy See the distribution of global forests and which countries have the most forest cover Explore longterm changes in deforestation, and deforestation rates across the world today See which countries are gaining forest though natural forest expansion and afforestation The world loses 5 million hectares of forest to deforestation each year
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