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Malaysia had the highest rate of lost forest in the world between 2000 and 2012, according to a new global forest map developed in collaboration with Google.
The total forest lost in Malaysia amounts to 14.4 percent of the forested area in 2000. The loss translates into 47,278 square kilometers (18,244 square miles), a region larger than Denmark.
Malaysia's forest loss was partially offset by 25,978 km² of vegetation resulting from natural recovery, reforestation and the creation of timber industry and palm oil plantations. During that time, palm oil ownership in Malaysia has grown approximately 50% (17,000 km²).
But plantations do not fit well with natural forests in terms of biodiversity, carbon storage and maintaining order in the ecosystem, which indicates that Malaysia suffered a large decline in its natural heritage base. Most of Malaysia's forest loss occurred in its thicker forests, which exceed 50% tree cover, which generally store most of the carbon and are richer in wildlife, which includes orangutans in danger of extinction , African pygmy elephants, Sumatran rhinos and nebular panthers.
Real image of the deforestation in Malasia
Malasia, the country with the highest rate of deforestation on the planet
This is an stadisitc about major forest countries