Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses.
The country with the most deforestation is Indonesia. Since the last century, Indonesia has lost at least 15.79 million hectares of forest land, according to a study by US University of Maryland and the World Resource Institute.
The World Resources Institute estimates that most of the world’s remaining indigenous forest is located in Canada, Alaska, Russia and the Northwestern Amazon basin.
Though deforestation has increased rapidly in the past 50 years, it has been practiced throughout history.