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.

The table compares and contrasts the

number

of forest areas in millions of

hectares

between 1990, 2000, and 2005 from Africa, Asia,

Europe

, North America, Oceania, and South Africa. In general, the

number

of forest zones from all over the

contigents

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continent

contingents

continents

was gradually decreasing,

while

Europe

was the owner of the largest woods than any other contingent. It can be seen from the table that only Asia and

Europe

were having a positive trend for their land of greenery. By 1990, forest size in Asia was 576 million

hectares

,

although

in 2000 it showed a negative trend, the

number

then

continued to rise slightly.

This

number

was similar to

Europe

with approximately growing within 10

hectares

from 1990 to 2005. Moving on to the negative trends, North America and Oceania showed

faint

Correct article usage

a faint

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reduction within under 5 million

hectares

of missing greenery area. It is interesting to note that Africa and North America experienced an extreme loss of their woodland of roughly about 60 million

hectares

.