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SOUTH ASIA : DEFORESTATION AND BIODIVERSITY
| Country | Forest area | Average annual deforestation | Mammals | Birds | Higher plants (a) | Nationally protected areas | ||||||
| Thousand sq. km. | (%) of total land | sq. km. | Decline in forest area (%) | Species | Threatened species | Species | Threatened species | Species | Threatened species | Thousand sq. km. | (%) of total land | |
| 2000 | 2000 | 1990-2000 | 1990-2000 | 1996 (b) | 2000 (b) | 1996 (b) | 2000 (b) | 1997 (b) | 1997 (b) | 1999 (b) | 1999 (b) | |
| BANGLADESH | 13 | 10.2 | -165 | -1.3 | 109 | 21 | 295 | 23 | 5,000 | 24 | 1 | 0.8 |
| INDIA | 641 | 21.6 | -381 | -0.1 | 316 | 86 | 923 | 70 | 16,000 | 1236 | 142.9 | 4.8 |
| NEPAL | 39 | 27.3 | 783 | 1.8 | 167 | 27 | 611 | 26 | 6973 | 20 | 11.1 | 7.8 |
| PAKISTAN | 25 | 3.2 | 304 | 1.1 | 151 | 18 | 375 | 17 | 4950 | 14 | 37.2 | 4.8 |
| SRI LANKA | 19 | 30 | 348 | 1.6 | 88 | 20 | 250 | 14 | 3314 | 455 | 8.6 | 13.3 |
Note : a= Flowering plants only
b= Data may refer to earlier years. They are the most recent
reported by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre in 2000.
Report : World Development Indicators. : 2001, The World Bank,
Washington, 2001.