Data from Global Forest Watch, the world’s most trusted platform for real-time forest monitoring, has revealed that global tree cover loss in 2025 was 25.5 million hectares—an area roughly the...
By Wanjira Mathai
Data from Global Forest Watch, the world’s most trusted platform for real-time forest monitoring, has revealed that global tree cover loss in 2025 was 25.5 million hectares—an area roughly the size of Ghana lost in a single year.
While this is a decline from 2024’s catastrophic record, fires remain the primary driver of loss, burning more than twice as much tree cover as they did two decades ago.
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