Mapping The 1.6 Billion People Who Live Near Forests

Global maps of places where people and forests coexist show that an estimated 1.6 billion people live within 5 kilometers of a forest. The assessment, based on data from 2000 and 2012 and published in the journal One Earth, showed that of these 1.6 billion "forest-proximate people," 64.5 percent were located in tropical...