Global maps of places where people and forests coexist show that an estimated 1.6 billion people live within 5 kilometers of a forest.
The assessment, based on data from 2000 and 2012 and published September 18 in the journal One Earth, showed that of these 1.6 billion “forest-proximate people”, 64.5 percent were located in tropical countries, and 71.3 percent lived in countries classified as low or middle income by the World Bank.
“There were no data at all on how many people live in and around forests globally,” says first author Peter Newton, an Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. [Read more…] about Mapping the 1.6 billion people who live near forests
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