How many animal species live in Switzerland's forests? Where are there the most forests in the world? And are there more people or more trees on earth? The 10 most exciting facts about the forest at a glance!
The forest and its trees are quasi identity-forming for NIKIN. That's why we always set out to find out new things about the forest. This time, we went straight to the graphics department with our discoveries, and they have put together a wonderful overview for us. Following the graphic, you will find all the facts about the forest next explained.
These are the 10 most exciting facts about the forest
Exciting but unpleasant is this fact about forests: originally, forests covered half of the earth's land area. Today we are still at 31%. We are appalled, the only thing that helps is to plant trees, consume consciously and stand up for nature.
Large countries have large forest stocks
At least that is the simple rule. Brazil, China, Canada, Russia and the USA boast the largest forests. In total, there are currently 400 trees for every person on earth. Let's hope it stays that way.
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Lots of forest = lots of biodiversity
80% of all biodiversity on land can be found in the forest. In other words, urban biodiversity is a myth. Since 2015, however, we have been losing 10 million hectares of forest every year and thus also of biodiversity. This does not exclude Switzerland either, after all 25,000 species live in or from the forest. The forest makes up athird of our land area .
Trees as high as skyscrapers
Worldwide, 350 million people live in or from the forest. While 60 million, for example Amazon tribes, cannot live at all without forests. After all, the particularly old and large trees are mostly already protected. For example, isthe largest tree in the world. It is 116 metres high and stands in California. By comparison, the Prime Tower in Zurich is only 10 metres taller.
Learn more about the NIKIN tree planting projects
We plant a tree for every product purchased. You can find out how this works and where exactly your tree will be at TreePlanting and with the TreeTracker . Shopping at NIKIN is worth it: together with the community, we have already planted over 1.5 million trees!
