Extended Data Table 2.
Forest area estimates used to calculate total continental forest sink.
| Period | intact forest area (Mha)* | ||||
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| Africa | Amazon | Southeast Asia | Pan-tropics | ||
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| 1980 | 671.5 | 958.3 | 233.6 | 1863.4 | |
| 1985 | 634.3 | 921.1 | 207.4 | 1762.8 | |
| 1990 | 600.2 | 885.2 | 190.6 | 1676.0 | |
| 1995 | 565.9 | 851.1 | 163.5 | 1580.5 | |
| 2000 | 531.8 | 817.2 | 136.9 | 1485.9 | |
| 2005 | 504.8 | 784.5 | 129.2 | 1418.5 | |
| 2010 | 477.8 | 756.3 | 118.4 | 1352.5 | |
| 2015 | 450.5 | 726.7 | 101.5 | 1278.7 | |
| 2020 | 425.5 | 698.5 | 90.1 | 1214.2 | |
| 2025 | 402.0 | 671.5 | 80.0 | 1153.4 | |
| 2030 | 379.7 | 645.4 | 71.0 | 1096.1 | |
| 2035 | 358.6 | 620.4 | 63.0 | 1042.1 | |
| 2040 | 338.8 | 596.4 | 56.0 | 991.1 | |
*
Intact forest area for 1990, 2000 and 2007 is published in ref.1 (i.e. the total forest area minus forest regrowth). To estimate intact forest area for the other years in this table, we fitted exponential models for each continent using the published data. intact forest area (Mha).