Forest area by category - Privately owned lands - since 1993
Source: HS Env (2024), Table 1.1 - Forest area by category, Statistics Mauritius; Privately - owned lands; Privately - owned lands - total; Reserves; Mountain reserves; River reserves; Nature reserves; Others; Note: Current figures for privately-owned lands are crude estimates based on expert knowledge from Forestry Service; Others includes plantations, forest lands, scrub and grazing lands; As per remote sensing survey effected by the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) and the United Nations Commission to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), using Sentinel and Landsat satelllite imagery, the total area of privately-owned forest lands is now estimated at 20,000 ha as at 2023. It is worthy to note that this decline from 25,000 ha to 20,000 ha occurred gradually over the last 15 years;
Sources: Forestry Service, Ministry of Agro Industry and Food Security
Theme: Forests
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