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CHART: share of deforestation in Sumatra

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This forest cover data is from Margono et al 2012. Related story at Rainforests decline sharply in Sumatra, but rate of deforestation slows.

Share of deforestation in Sumatra by province, 1990-2010 (square kilometers)


1990
2000
2010

Total
Degraded
Primary
Total
Degraded
Primary
Total
Degraded
Primary
Aceh	3.86	1.78	2.08	3.43	1.81	1.62	3.32	1.79	1.53
North Sumatra	2.53	2.12	0.41	2.12	1.76	0.35	1.92	1.69	0.24
West Sumatra	2.69	1.96	0.73	2.4	1.73	0.67	2.29	1.7	0.59
Riau	5.67	4.18	1.49	3.8	3.49	0.32	2.53	2.29	0.23
Jambi	2.65	1.94	0.71	1.82	1.4	0.41	1.51	1.11	0.4
South Sumatra	2.28	1.97	0.31	0.99	0.71	0.28	0.94	0.67	0.27
Bengkulu	1.04	0.47	0.57	0.81	0.34	0.46	0.77	0.32	0.45
Lampung	0.39	0.31	0.09	0.32	0.23	0.09	0.31	0.23	0.08
Total	21.11	14.73	6.39	15.69	11.48	4.21	13.58	9.79	3.79

CITATION: Belinda Arunarwati Margono, Svetlana Turubanova, Ilona Zhuravleva, Peter Potapov, Alexandra Tyukavina, Alessandro Baccini, Scott Goetz and Matthew C Hansen. Mapping and monitoring deforestation and forest degradation in Sumatra (Indonesia) using Landsat time series data sets from 1990 to 2010. Environ. Res. Lett. 7 034010 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034010 Published 19 July 2012

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