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Last frontier forests: Ecosystems and economies on the edge
Table 4. Countries with most of the world's remaining frontier forest
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Global Rank
Country
Total Frontier Forest
(000 Km2)
Percent of the World’s Total Frontier Forest
1
Russia
3,448
26
2
Canada
3,429
25
3
Brazil
2,284
17
4
Peru
540
4
5
Indonesia
530
4
6
Venezuela
391
3
7
Colombia
348
3
8
United States
307
2
9
Zaire
292
2
10
Bolivia
255
2
11
Papua New Guinea
172
1
12
Chile
162
1
Total frontier forest area of the top 12 countries as a % of the global total:
90
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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
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