Deforestation is the process of clearing or thinning trees from an area. This can be done to collect timber or to clear land for farm land, housing, mining, and other human activities. 

From 2001 to 2023, Romania lost 4 330 square kilometers, nearly the size of Ialomița County or over 600 000 football pitches. The as a whole world lost 66 000 square kilometers of forest in 2022 alone, the size of Lithuania or 9 million football fields. 

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