Table 4.

Humid tropical forest cover estimates for the TREES II project, the FRA 2000 programme and the AVHRR time-series analysis.

	Latin America	Africa	Southeast Asia	pan-tropical
TREESa(1990–1997)—humid tropical forests
forest cover in 1997 (106 ha)	653	193	270	1116
net annual deforested area (106 ha)	2.2±1.2	0.7±0.3	2.0±0.8	4.9±1.3
annual regrowth area (106 ha)	0.28±0.22	0.14±0.11	0.53±0.25	1.0±0.32
annual degraded area (106 ha)	0.83±0.67	0.39±0.19	1.1±0.44	2.3±0.71
mean deforestation rate (%)	0.33	0.36	0.71	0.43
FRA 2000 Remote Sensing Surveyb(1990–2000)
forest cover in 2000 (106 ha)	780	519	272	1571
Net annual deforested area (106 ha; all tropical forests)	4.2±1.1	2.1±0.4	2.3±0.6	8.6±1.3
mean deforestation rate (%)	0.51	0.34	0.79	0.52
net annual deforested area (106 ha; humid tropical forests)	—	—	—	5.7±1.2
mean deforestation rate (%; humid tropical forests)	—	—	—	0.51
FRA 2000 Country Surveyc(1990–2000)
net annual deforested area (106 ha)	2.7	1.2	2.5	6.4
AVHRR Pathfinder (1990s)
net loss of tree cover, calibrated to Landsat-based studies (106 ha)	3.18 (1.69–4.04)	0.38 (0–0.66)	2.01 (0.82–3.17)	5.56 (2.51–7.87)

^aArea estimates can differ from table 2 because the TREES and GLC 2000 domains are different in Africa (Angola, Ethiopia and East Africa are not included in the TREES domain) and because semi-deciduous forests (dry dipterocarp forests) are included in the TREES study in Asia. Latin America also includes Central America in this table.

^bThe FRA RS estimates refer to forest definition, which includes closed forest, open forest, long fallow and one third of fragmented forest.

^cOnly the national statistics of the countries covering the TREES domain are included in the current table.