
BERLIN, Germany/WASHINGTON, D.C., USA , October 14 (IPS) – 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.

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