Up to 420 million acres of forest will be lost in the next two decades . The report says that if current trends continue, by 2050 there could be as much as a third less forested land than today, and up to 40 percent fewer trees overall.
Up to 420 million acres of forest will be lost in the next two decades . Warning comes from the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) 80 per cent of project losses will occur in just 11 'deforestation fronts ' The include the Amazon , eastern Australia and Sumatra .