Published on : 14 Oct 2025, 12:38 pm

The health of the earth’s forests is deteriorating and remains in crisis worldwide as countries are off track on halting and reversing deforestation by 2030, according to the Forest Declaration Assessment 2025.

The report comes at the halfway point in the decade of ambitious forest pledges for which 2025 was meant to be a turning point. It highlighted that deforestation rates continue to escalate. The world is off track to zero down on deforestation by 2030 as nearly 8.1 million hectares of forest were wiped out in 2024 alone.

These figures exceeded the annual target of five million hectares. They were three million hectares higher than what was pledged by world leaders to eliminate deforestation and forest degradation and restore 30 per cent of

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