Land areas around the world totalling more than the size of Canada have been identified as having potential to be restored to good quality, healthy forests, a new study has found. As the global effort to help tackle climate change by reversing the Earth's alarming loss of forests steps up, scientists using satellite mapping have produced a world map identifying areas in which more than a billion hectares of former forest land and degraded forest land has restoration potential. This is about six per cent of the planet's total land area, and restoring forests to some of these lands could be achieved without prejudicing other vital land uses, such as food production.
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