Amazonian deforestation in the global context

Annual net change in forest area

Area of biomes protected

Average annual rate of change

Benefits from deforestation

Boreal forest extent

Breakdown of carbon storage by region

Carbon stocks trends and projections compared to 1860

Certification regional breakdown

Change forest cover Costa Rica

Changing global forest cover

Colonization of West Papua Indonesia

Conversion of original biomes

Cutting smaller parcels in Hälsingland Sweden

Deforestation causes in Brazil

Deforestation in Brazil compared with the area of Turkey

Drivers of forest conversion

Economic value of forests in the Mediterranean basin

Estimated loss of plant species 2000-2005

Estimated loss of rainfall in Amazonia in the next century

Estimate of area of vegetation destroyed annually by fire by region

Extent of pollution over Asia

Forest and biodiversity under threat by economic development

Forest carbon stock per region

Forest concessions and protected areas

Forest conservation and wood production

Forest cover and definition

Forest cover in relation to poverty Madagascar

Forest cover in relation to poverty Madagascar

Forest per total land area

Forests affected as hideouts and refuges

Forests and conflicts

Forests in narcotics and arms trafficking areas

Forests regulate groundwater level

Future expansion of palm oil in Indonesia

Global biofuel production

Global forest fragmentation

Global forest plantations for protective purposes

Global protected forests

Global trade in forest products

Global wood consumption

Growth of cattle breeding in Amazonia

Historical forest carbon balance 1855-1995

Illegal logging in the Baltic Countries

Impact of climate change on mountain vegetation zones

Increase in forest concessions in Cameroon

Indigenous land in Amazonia

Intra-regional trade in primary wood and paper products in 2006

Level of dependence on forests

Logging and corruption

Logging concessions and protected areas

Loss of human lives due to conflicts over land 1997-2007 Brazil

Main flow of illegally logged timber to Europe

Major producers of palm oil and beef

Major producers of soya beans and sugar cane

Mapping traditional activities in MPAA

Most forested countries

Number of animal species per biome ecosystem

Number of tree species per country in the world

Pricing ecosystems

Production imports and exports of selected forest products

Smoke over South East Asia on 11 September 1997

Socio economic indicators for the legal Amazon region

Solid biomass consumption including woodfuel

Tea production areas and forest distribution in Kenya

Ten countries with the largest area of productive forest plantations

The carbon cycle

The Kola Peninsula under threat from deadly emissions

The main biomes of the world

The routes of African ivory and rhino horns to Asia

The world is losing 20000 ha of forest a day

The world is losing its mangroves

Trends in area of productive forest plantations

Trends in commodity prices

Trends in deforestation in the Xingu River basin Brazil

Trends in forest certification

Trends in net trade of forest products

Trends in occurence of wild fires

Trends in production and exports of soya beans

Very little forest area is certified

What is becoming of the Amazon forest?

When forest conversion is profitable

Which countries account for the largest area of protective forest plantations

Wildlife smuggling to in and from Nepal

Woodfuel consumption trends and outlook

Wood products rise

Worst case scenario for the Amazon forest

Vital Forest Graphics

Over the last few years, two key environmental issues, have been on the top of the environmental agenda: climate change and deforestation

05 Jun 2009 Vital Graphics Series