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Last frontier forests: Ecosystems and economies on the edge
  • Authors & Acknowledgments
  • Foreword
  • Table of Contents
  • Major findings
  • Introduction
  • Why do frontier forests matter?
  • What do we know about the world's forests?
  • WRI's forest frontier assessment
  • Falling frontiers
  • Today's threats
  • Destruction's roots
  • The Frontier Forest Index
    • Table 3. Frontier forest index
    • Table 4. Countries with most of the world's remaining frontier forest
    • Table 5. Ten countries with the highest plant biodiversity in their frontier forest
  • Regional overviews
  • The closing frontier: A call to action
  • Conclusions
  • Technical Annex
Table 4. Countries with most of the world's remaining frontier forest
Global Rank Country Total Frontier Forest
(000 Km2)
Percent of the World's Total Frontier Forest

1Russia3,44826
2Canada3,42925 3Brazil2,28417 4Peru5404 5Indonesia5304 6Venezuela3913 7Colombia3483 8United States3072 9Zaire2922 10Bolivia2552 11Papua New Guinea1721 12Chile1621
Total frontier forest area of the top 12 countries as a % of the global total: 90
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