Global forest loss slows but El Niño fires could threaten progress

The loss of tropical rainforests eased last year, according to new analysis, but scientists warn they are still disappearing rapidly.

Tropical rainforest loss eases after record year, but still ‘11 football fields a minute’

The pace of tropical forest destruction slowed in 2025 after record losses the year before but remained at worrying levels equivalent to 11 football fields per minute, researchers said Wednesday. The world lost 4.3 million hectares (10.6 million acres) of tropical primary rainforest last year, down 36 per cent from 2024, said researchers from the World Resources Institute (WRI) and the University of Maryland. “A drop of this scale in a single year is encouraging – it shows what decisive...

By Agence France-Presse