Band 7+: The pie chart below shows the main reasons why forests are declining worldwide. The table presents how these causes affected three regions of the world during the 2010s. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie chart illustrates the principal factors responsible for deforestation across the globe while the table shows the impacts of them on three particular areas, namely North America, Europe, and South America, in the 2010s.

Overall, logging was the main culprit of deforestation in the whole world. The total percentage of degraded forests in Europe was the highest among the three regions.

According to the pie chart, logging accounts for the highest proportion of deforestation at 40%, followed by agriculture, at 30%, and urban expansion, at 20%. Additionally, only 10% of forests all over the world were destroyed by other unspecified factors.

The table highlights that 25.5% of forests in Europe were affected, with approximately 15% attributed to agricultural influences. However, North America’s forests were recorded the least damaged among the three areas, with only 9.4% of forest loss associated with logging served as the primary cause at 5.3%. South America ranked second, with its proportion of degraded forests roughly twice as much as the figure for North America at 17.3%, primarily due to logging, which accounted for 13%.