How forested is France?

According to the U.N. FAO, 29.0% or about 15,954,000 ha of France is forested, according to FAO. Of this 0.2% ( 30,000 ) is classified as primary forest, the most biodiverse and carbon-dense form of forest. France had 1,633,000 ha of planted forest.
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What percentage of France is forested?

Forests now cover 31% of France. In terms of area, it is the fourth most forested country in the EU, after Sweden, Finland and Spain. Since 1990, thanks to better protection as well as to a decline in farming, France's overall wooded or forested areas have increased by nearly 7%. And France is far from being alone.
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Does France have lots of forest?

France is one of the only countries in Europe to have tropical forests. Accounting for 10% of European forest cover, France has the fourth largest forest area in the EU behind Sweden, Finland and Spain.
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What country in Europe is the most forested?

Looking at the forest area as a proportion of a country's total land area, Finland (71% of total land area) and Sweden (67%) are the most heavily forested countries, followed by Slovenia (64%), Estonia (58%) and Latvia (56%), while the Netherlands (8%), Malta (11%) and Denmark (16%) are the least wooded countries.
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Is there a lot of trees in France?

Metropolitan France contains a total of 16,900,000 hectares (65,000 sq mi) of tree coverage, with 13,800,000 hectares (53,000 sq mi) considered to be forestry by the National Forest Inventory (IFN).
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Is deforestation a problem in France?

From 2001 to 2021, France lost 1.33Mha of tree cover, equivalent to a 7.9% decrease in tree cover since 2000.
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What percentage of Germany is forested?

In all, 33% of Germany's land area is forest – that is 11.4 million hectares with over 90 billion trees.
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Which EU country has the least forest cover?

The least forested country in Europe is Malta, with just 5% of forest area, followed by United Kingdom and Ireland (both 12%) and the Netherlands with 13%.
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Which country in Europe has the least trees?

Ireland and the Netherlands are equally the least-wooded countries in Europe, each with 11% forest cover. There are four territories with less cover: Isle of Man (6%), Jersey (5%), Guernsey (3%) and Malta (1%). Gibraltar, Holy See, Monaco, San Marino and Svalbard & Jan Mayen Islands all have 0% forest cover.
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Why Scotland has so few trees?

In Scotland, more than half of our native woodlands are in unfavourable condition (new trees are not able to grow) because of grazing, mostly by deer. Our native woodlands only cover four per cent of our landmass. As in many parts of the world today land use is a product of history.
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What percentage of Great Britain is forested?

This represents 13% of the total land area in the UK, 19% in Scotland, 15% in Wales, 10% in England, and 9% in Northern Ireland. Of the total UK woodland area, 0.86 million hectares is owned or managed by Forestry England, Forestry and Land Scotland, Natural Resources Wales or the Forest Service (in Northern Ireland).
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How much of UK is forest?

Land covered by forestry (Figures 1 and 2) has increased steadily by 4.4% from 3.05 million hectares in 2009 to 3.19 million hectares in 2019. Scotland has 46% of the UK's woodlands, England has 41%, Wales has 10% and Northern Ireland has 4%.
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Who owns the forests in France?

Forest is mostly private in France. Three quarters of the metropolitan French forest area belongs to private owners, which makes up 12.7 millions of hectares. State-owned forests cover 9 percent of metropolitan forested area, the rest being occupied by other public forests, mainly communal forests.
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Which country has highest percentage of forest?

Russia – which has the largest forest area – is home to one-fifth of global forest area. Brazil is the only other country with more than 10% of global forest cover.
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How much of Italy is forest?

According to the U.N. FAO, 31.1% or about 9,149,000 ha of Italy is forested, according to FAO. Of this 1.0% ( 93,000 ) is classified as primary forest, the most biodiverse and carbon-dense form of forest.
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Which country has no forest?

There are five places with no forest whatsoever, according to World Bank's definition* - Nauru, San Marino, Qatar, Greenland and Gibraltar - while in a further 12 places there is less than one per cent.
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Which UK country has most trees?

Surrey is Britain's leafiest county according to the first ever complete tree count in England and Wales. Experts have carried out the exhaustive tree survey using the latest aerial mapping technology, showing there are 280 million trees in the UK.
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What percentage of Ireland is forested?

According to various sources, Ireland is currently about 11 percent forested, and although that's a low number, it's a huge increase from the centuries before. In the late 1920s, just 1.2 percent of the island enjoyed forest cover, leaving 98.8 percent of Ireland more or less treeless.
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Does Ireland have any forests?

The forests of Ireland are very diverse, ranging from commercial plantations to native woodlands, to trees and woods in and around our towns and cities.
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What percentage of Russia is forest?

According to the U.N. FAO, 49.4% or about 809,090,000 ha of Russia is forested, according to FAO.
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How much of Spain is forest?

According to the U.N. FAO, 36.4% or about 18,173,000 ha of Spain is forested, according to FAO. Spain had 2,680,000 ha of planted forest.
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How deforested is Ireland?

Ireland Deforestation Rates & Statistics | GFW. In 2010, Ireland had 995kha of natural forest, extending over 21% of its land area. In 2021, it lost 2.57kha of natural forest.
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Which country has the most trees?

As per the figures published in Nature journal, Russia is the world's tree leader with 642 billion trees followed by Canada (318-361 billion trees), Brazil (302-338 billion), the United States (222-228 billion), and China (140-178 billion).
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How many trees are there in the UK?

There are around three billion trees in the UK, or around 47 for every Briton.
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Does Germany suffer from deforestation?

From 2001 to 2021, Germany lost 1.14Mha of tree cover, equivalent to a 9.1% decrease in tree cover since 2000.
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