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Africa has lost more forest cover than any other region worldwide-study

Africa has lost the largest amount of forest cover globally in the last decade - 3.9 million hectares - a new survey shows.

According to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FRA 2020), South America comes second having lost 2.6 million hectares (ha) of forest cover.

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