Tree cover loss — France
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What does this chart show?
Think of the country's forest as a large reserve. Each year, part of it disappears (cut, burned, cleared) — that's the orange bar, in hectares (1 hectare ≈ 1 football pitch). But the same number of lost hectares doesn't weigh the same depending on the reserve's size: losing 10,000 hectares in a small, heavily forested country is a huge share of its forest; losing the same 10,000 hectares in a huge country like Brazil is almost nothing. The red curve (%) corrects for that: it truly says "what share of its forest the country loses that year".
The dashed purple curve shows something else: the loss added up since the first available year, relative to the forest size at that time. Losing 1% a year seems small, but added up over 20 years, it can represent a large part of the original forest — this curve gives the real scale over the whole period covered by the data.
Technical note: total forest area (FAO) is only measured every few years, while loss is annual. Between two measurements, we use the closest known value rather than leaving the % curves empty.
What exactly do these figures cover?
This is tree cover loss detected by satellite (30m resolution, Hansen et al.), all causes combined — clear-cutting, fire, logging, agriculture. It's not necessarily permanent deforestation: a plot can regrow after managed logging. Loss data covers 2001-2024.
The red curve (% lost) relates this annual loss to the country's total forest area that year (FAO, recalculated every 5 years and interpolated in between) — to give a relative sense of scale rather than a raw hectare figure with no context.
Source: Global Forest Watch, via Our World in Data (CC-BY). Automatic monthly refresh.
Species observed in the field
This data comes from field observations recorded in GBIF (citizen science and scientific records) — not a complete inventory, but a snapshot of what is actually recorded, country by country and for a few pilot cities/regions.
The "in GlobalTreeSearch" marker only means the species appears in this tree reference list (BGCI, CC BY-NC 4.0 licence, non-commercial) — it is never a planting recommendation. To choose a species, ask your local forestry service.
Most observed species — France
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Source: GBIF (GBIF.org), timestamped observations. GlobalTreeSearch verification: BGCI.