Global deforestation slowed in 2025 but surged in Congo basin: study
A new report says 7 million hectares were lost in 2025, while rainforest loss in the Congo Basin rose to 2.4 million hectares.
- A new study released Wednesday reported global deforestation slowed last year, with 7 million hectares of forest permanently destroyed in 2025, a 15-percent drop from the previous year, according to the Forest Declaration Assessment.
- Latin America's 33-percent drop in deforestation drove the global improvement, but the situation deteriorated sharply in Central Africa, where rainforest loss reached 2.4 million hectares—near the same level as the Amazon for the first time.
- An exceptionally strong Nino weather pattern threatens future progress, with Erin Matson of Climate Focus calling the 2025 figures "encouraging but so far it's the exception, not a new trajectory."
- Sam Nguiffo, founder of the Centre for Environment and Development in Cameroon, called the losses "a disaster," warning that logging and agriculture are fueling conflicts for local and indigenous communities.
- Experts warn progress faces threats from recent elections in Colombia and Peru, while Brazil's presidential runoff on October 25 features Luiz Inacio Lula against Senator Flavio Bolsonaro; the report concludes the world is set to miss its 2030 deforestation pledge.
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Globally, huge forest areas have been lost in recent decades, and the trend is not halted in 2025. However, according to a report, it can at least be slowed down. This is mainly due to the development in Brazil. But this could soon change again.
A baseline study reveals a decline in global deforestation last year, a fragile improvement threatened by the situation in the Congo Basin and the El Niño phenomenon Deforestation in the Congo Basin
World Lost More Than 7 Million Hectares of Forest in 2025
The world lost more than 7 million hectares of forest to deforestation in 2025, a modest improvement on recent years but still far from what is needed to meet global forest protection targets by 2030, according to a new assessment of international conservation efforts. The Forest Declaration Assessment 2026, prepared by a coalition of civil […]
Despite a decline in deforestation in the previous year, seven million hectares of forest have still been deforested worldwide. Significantly more than would be allowed for the 2030 target.
Global deforestation fell in 2025, but Congo Basin losses surged
Deforestation slowed worldwide last year, but the improvement is unlikely to last as the situation deteriorates in Central Africa and an exceptionally strong El Nino weather pattern intensifies, a new study said on Wednesday. Seven million hectares of forest – roughly the size of the Republic of Ireland – were permanently destroyed in 2025, a 15 per cent drop from the previous year, according to the annual Forest Declaration Assessment. The slow…
The situation deteriorated last year in the Congo Basin, where deforestation reached 2.4 million hectares, a level for the first time comparable to that of Latin America.
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