Q. With reference to the Global Forest Resources Assessment Report, consider the following statements:
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
Q. With reference to the Global Forest Resources Assessment Report, consider the following statements:
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
The correct option is B 2 and 3 only
Explanation:
Statement 1 is incorrect: It is published by FAO but once every five years.
Statements 2 and 3 are correct: The world has a total forest area of 4.06 billion hectares (ha), which is 31 percent of the total land area. This area is equivalent to 0.52 ha per person1 – although forests are not distributed equally among the world’s peoples or geographically. The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world’s forests (45 per cent), followed by the boreal, temperate and subtropical domains. More than half (54 percent) of the world’s forests is in only five countries – the Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, the United States of America and China.
Explanation:
Statement 1 is incorrect: It is published by FAO but once every five years.
Statements 2 and 3 are correct: The world has a total forest area of 4.06 billion hectares (ha), which is 31 percent of the total land area. This area is equivalent to 0.52 ha per person1 – although forests are not distributed equally among the world’s peoples or geographically. The tropical domain has the largest proportion of the world’s forests (45 per cent), followed by the boreal, temperate and subtropical domains. More than half (54 percent) of the world’s forests is in only five countries – the Russian Federation, Brazil, Canada, the United States of America and China.
