By January 2022, 37 per cent of countries assessed are on track to achieve or exceed their national targets.
More and more countries are establishing national targets for incorporating ecosystem and biodiversity values into their accounting and reporting systems.Globally, the mean percentage coverage of key biodiversity areas increased from over one quarter in 2000 to nearly one half in 2021.Human activities such as logging and farming are encroaching upon habitats, putting about 20 per cent of reptile species at risk.More than 700 million hectares of forest (18 per cent) were in legally established protected areas in 2020.The proportion of forests under a long-term management plan increased from 54 per cent in 2010 to 58 per cent in 2020. Between 20, the area of forest land under certification schemes increased by 35 per cent.Agricultural expansion is driving almost 90 per cent of global deforestation, including 49.6 per cent from expansion for cropland and 38.5 per cent for livestock grazing.
Forest cover fell from 31.9 per cent of total land area in 2000 to 31.2 per cent in 2020, a net loss of almost 100 million hectares.
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