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1. Amazon (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana (France), Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela)
The world’s largest forest is also the site of the biggest projected losses. More than one-quarter of the region will be without forests if trends continue. Cattle ranching and agriculture are the dominant causes of deforestation in most of the region.
2. Greater Mekong (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
The economy here is booming. With this comes an urgent need to balance conservation with economic development—particularly the desire to convert forest land for sugar, rice, rubber and biofuels. As more land is converted, the threat to species grows. This is a region rich in species. In 2011 alone, 126 new species were discovered here, including fish, snakes, frogs and bats.
3.Borneo (Java, west of Sulawesi, and east of Sumatra)
Projections for 2030 for the “Heart of Borneo”—home to most of the country’s forest—show only 33 percent of the lowland rainforest remaining. Deforestation and degradation are driven by weak governance and a lack of stability that encourages people—especially those who want to create palm oil plantations—to get what they can while they can.
4. Cerrado ( between the Amazon, Atlantic Forests and Pantanal)
This high plateau region of Brazil is not nearly as well-known as the Amazon. But it is under just as threatened—mainly from cattle ranching and the conversion of forests to soy plantations. If the current rate of loss continues, much of the Cerrado’s savannah, woodland and forests outside of protected areas will disappear by 2030.
5. Congo Basin (Gulf of Guinea and the African Great Lakes)
One of the most important wilderness areas on Earth, this region contains 20 percent of the world’s tropical forests and the highest biological diversity in Africa. The human population here is expected to double between 2000 and 2030, mainly in urban areas. Forests close to large cities are particularly threatened.