North and Central America Facts

• Original forest covered 12.7 million square kilometers in North and Central America.
• Only 3.9 million square kilometers (31%) remain as healthy intact forest (as frontier forest).
• Frontier forest in Central America makes up only 10% of original forest cover.
• In the lower 48 States, only 1% of original forest remains as forest frontier.
• Canada is home to 25% of the world's forest frontiers and 88% of North and Central America's.
• 87% of frontier forest in Central America is threatened.
• 84% of North America's threatened frontier forests are under threat from logging.

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