ASUNCION: More than 43 million hectares — an area bigger than Germany — of forest have been lost in a little over a decade in just a handful of deforestation hotspots, conservation organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said on Wednesday.
Swathes of forest continue to be flattened each year — mainly due to industrial-scale agriculture — as biodiversity-rich areas are cleared to create space for livestock and crops.
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