Environmentalists from Yale University estimated the total number of trees growing in the world: it turned out that they – about $ 3 trillion over the planet.
At the same time the leader in the number turned out to Russia – it contains about 640 billion trees, which is almost twice higher than that of Canada do in this kind of ranking the second place. The third is Brazil, where there are about 300 billion trees. The top ten also hit the US, China, Congo, Indonesia, Australia, Bolivia, and Mexico.
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The worst thing is the case with tree cover in the Arab state of Bahrain – is growing about 3 thousand trees. Besides him, the outsiders were Qatar, Monaco, the Cocos Islands, Gibraltar and the uninhabited Paracel Islands.
According to the calculations of American scientists, the number of trees in the world has dropped by almost half (46 per cent) since the emergence of the first centers civilization.
They also found out how fast declining population of trees due to deforestation, climate change and other processes. It turned out that the face of the planet for these reasons that each year disappears around 15 billion trees.
“For all time of our existence we have managed to destroy about half of the trees, and we have seen how this has affected the environment and human health . Such a rapid rate of deforestation show how much effort we still should make in order to restore forests around the world “, – RIA Novosti quoted the words of one of the study authors Thomas Crowther.
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