Today’s column concludes the ongoing presentation of background information on the global forest environment. The initial focus of this effort has been on trends pertaining to the first area of my coming discussion on the state of Guyana’s forest, which will be the size and rate of deforestation. The information, which will be provided comes from the FAO, Global Forest Assessment (GFA) 2015. After completing this task, I start the description of the state of Guyana’s forests.
Global trends
Several global trends stand out in the FAO, GFA 2015, and those of importance to this introduction are first, between 1990 and 2015, there was a net decrease of 3 per cent in the global area of forests. This decrease was realized after both natural and human-induced deforestation was taken into account,
