Deforestation in Vietnam

However, regarding total forest cover, Vietnam has undergone a forest transition, i.e. its forest cover has increased since the early 1990s, after decades of deforestation .

As of 2005, 12,931,000 hectares equivalent of 39.7% of the land cover had been forested although only 0.7% - 85,000 hectares was primary forest ..

Vietnam has some 1,534 known species of fauna and 10500 species of vascular plants according to the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. 3.4% of Vietnam is protected under IUCN categories I-V.

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