Fig. 1.

Forest clearing and forest cover in the humid tropical forest biome, 2000–2005. Total forest clearing over the study period is estimated to be 27.2 million hectares (SE 2.28 million hectares). Regional variation in clearing intensity is shown: Region 1 covers 6% of the biome and contains 55% of clearing; region 2 covers 44% of the biome and contains 40% of forest clearing; and region 3 covers 50% of the biome and contains 5% of forest clearing. Data from this figure are available at http://globalmonitoring.sdstate.edu/projects/gfm.