The table shows forested land in millions of hectares in different parts of the world. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

Among all the continents, Europe and South

America

have the uttermost

surface

of forested

land

as recorded in 1990, 2000 and 2005, presenting more than 904,000

hectares

covering the

land

and followed by North

America

,

Afirca

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Africa

,

Asia

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and Asia

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.

On the other hand

, Oceania has significantly less forested

land

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almost 200,000

hectares

. The table shows that during the

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3-year study

Europe has seen an increase in the

surface

of forested

land

, from 989

hectares

in 1990

,

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to 1001

hectares

, in 2005.

Similarly

, Asia presented an increased forested

surface

in 2005, rather than in 2000 or even in 1990, but still represented

aproximatively

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approximately

approximatively

half of the

surface

from Europe.

By contrast

, South

America

has recorded a decrease from 946

hectares

in the first year to 882

hectares

in the

third

year.

Similarly

, Africa had in 2005 not

as

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many trees as in 1990. As for North

America

, Asia and Oceania, no

singicant

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significant

changes were recorded by specialists, only slight differences.