Environmental Science 14th Edition by Tyler Miller ,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 7

Search for Forests and Deforestation and use the topic portal to find out the following: (a) whether overall tropical deforestation around the world is increasing or decreasing; (b) the three countries with the highest rates of deforestation; (c) the main causes for this deforestation, and (d) three countries where forests are actually growing back (where there is a net gain in forest cover when clearing of forests and regrowth of forests is considered).