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Honouring forests
The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2011 the International Year of Forests, a global platform to
Forests cover

31%
raise awareness on sustainable management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests.
Forest cover in percentage
of total land area
of total land area

180
Species of trees The livelihoods of
in Canada more than
850 1.6 people
billion
World forests
by type
Percentage of
total land area Species of trees in the
United States
depend
0 to 10% Tropical rain
forest 26%
10 to 30%
30 to 50%
50 to 70%
on forests.
70 to 100%

30%
Other tropical
Countries with more than forests 15%
1,000 tree species
Sub tropical
800 forest 9%
Global wood
consumption
Amount of forest
700 Temperate forests
11%
kg of wood consumed
600 per capita in 2004 used for wood and
500 Global trade in primary
non-wood products
Boreal forests
33%
wood & paper, 2006
400
Trade in forest CANADA RUSSIA
200 products EUROPE
was estimated at U.S.
CHINA
JAPAN

200
$327 BILLION ASIA

100 in 2004 AFRICA

LATIN AMERICA
OCEANIA
0 Exports, US$ billions
America
North

Oceania

America
South

Africa

Caribbean
America &
Central

Europe

Asia
Southeast

Asia
South

East Asia

Asia
Western

Asia
Central

4 to 6.5 2 to 4
1 to 2 0.5 to 1
Source: United Nations Environment Program SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1;INFOGRAPHIC BY TARA MARTIN/QMI AGENCY