Scientists: the Russian Federation there are 640 billion trees – “Voronezh Courier” – the newspaper online

So, according to the scientists, the surface of our planet contains about three trillion trees, and in the Russian Federation contains about 640 billion of them, which is an absolute record, and outputs the Russian Federation in the first place by the number of trees in the world.

The 2nd position went to Canada, however, the resources of the country is almost twice less than in Russia, experts counted 318 billion trees. However, twenty percent of them grow on the territory of the Russian Federation, writes v-kurier.ru.

Holding estimates scientists have learned that since the advent of modern civilization, the number of trees in the world decreased by 46%.

The trees are very necessary to maintain the cycle of substances in nature, they provide us with clean water and air. The three also is Brazil, which has about 300 billion trees. In 10 of the greenest countries include the US, China, Congo, Indonesia, Australia, Bolivia, and Mexico.

Environmentalists from Yale University estimated the total number of trees growing in the world: it turned out that they – about 3 trillion across the globe. According to scientists, a huge part of Russian trees located in the forests of Siberia and the Far East. And least of all the trees in the Arab states of Bahrain and Qatar, in addition to this and in Monaco. On the face of the planet for various reasons every year lost about 15 billion trees.