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The Top 5 Most Forested Countries
| Country | Percentage of Forested Land | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cook Islands | 96.0% |
| 2 | French Guiana | 90.0% |
| 3 | Solomon Islands | 87.8% |
| 4 | Suriname | 86.9% |
| 5 | Gabon | 84.7% |
Special Report
- Seventy-six countries have lost all of their frontier forests.
- Only seven countries still have a large proportion of their original forest cover remaining in an unthreatened state.
- 40% of the forests on Earth qualify as frontier forests
- 70% of the world's remaining frontier forests are in Russia, Canada and Brazil.
- 39% of Earth's remaining frontier forest is threatened by logging, agricultural clearing and other human activities.
