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At the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) held in Egypt this month, 26 countries agreed to hold each other accountable for a pledge to end deforestation. Launching the Forests and Climate Leaders' Partner­ship group, members (including Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Singapore and Pakistan) committed to halt and begin reversing forest loss and land degradation by 2030. Besides serving...

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Here are some of the signatories of the declaration – countries that are home to some of the most precious, not to mention beautiful, forests in the world.Northern Queensland is the only place on Earth where two Unesco World Heritage sites – the Wet Tropics of Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef – meet.

Despite this, the Southeast Asian nation's total forest cover grew from 28 per cent in 1990 to 42 per cent in 2020 and there are ambitious plans to plant a billion trees by 2025. The former royal hunting preserve is reputed to have been the stamping ground of Robin of Locksley, better known as Robin Hood.

Schwarzwald, to give the region its German name, is home to spa towns and cuckoo-clock shops, Michelin-star restaurants and bakeries selling Black Forest gateaux. The Nordic nation boasts more than 40 national parks and hundreds of other nature reserves, all of them free to enter and open year-round.About two-thirds of Japan is forested, which is almost double the global average. Semitropical Yakushima Forest, on the island of the same name, is recognised by Unesco for its plant diversity, and is home to some of the oldest trees in the world.

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