China has grown more new forest cover than any nation on Earth

For those looking for a source, I looked into it and yes the source is the CCPs claims. We all know how trustworthy CCP statistics are.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-07732-5

According to the Chinese NFI, national forest coverage has increased by 2.15% in the 7th NFI and by 3.41% in the 8th NFI

By contrast, the GFC dataset, which is considered to be more accurate than previous remote sensing datasets due to its unprecedented global high spatial resolution, showed that the change in forest area of China between 2000 and 2012 was a net loss of 38,743 km2, equivalent to a decline of 0.40% in national forest coverage

Basically, satellite imagery seems to "strangely" conflict with CCP figures.

ngl, vietnam is looking pretty impressive too

but at what cost? 😭

This article is nearly two years old. Also, I implicitly distrust any source which depicts Taiwan as part of the PRC.

I wonder what's going on with the DPRK

That's nearly a Texas area of forest.

The picture shows that Vietnam has more with 56.2%....

I am always happy to hear about reforestation, but has somebody understood out of which source the numbers from china are coming? I mean they are sometimes quite the enthusiasts talking about their successes

What the hell is PRK doing!?

I would be hesitant in claiming this as a win. I know that Japan has one of the highest number of trees per capita in the g7 but that was a hold over from post WW2. Where they planted a shit ton of a singular tree type. The monoculture wrecks havoc in their ecosystem. All this to say it's good that they are planting trees I'm just hoping they are doing it planning it out carefully.

according to (checks notes) ... "visualcapitalist". Yeah that sounds like a totally unbiased and reliable source.

I wonder if this includes tree plantations. Those should not be considered forests in my view.

keep raising the interest rates :troll

Iceland and Uruguay got those numbers tho.

No sources given for the data used in the infographic. How surprising /s

Sure but what's the forest growth per capita?

sources that contradicts this is buried in the convo
https://lemmy.ml/comment/5738838

Yay China. Say... isn't this the same country that turns out 68% of the world's air pollution?

What have they done about that?