#resource assessment

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Take care of tropical forests.

Plantation forests cover about 131 million ha, which is 3 percent of the global forest area and 45 percent of the total area of planted forests. The highest share of plantation forest is in South America with 99 percent of the total planted-forest area and 2 percent of the total forest area.

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Take care of temperate forests.

The lowest share of plantation forest is in Europe, where it represents 6 percent of the planted forest estate and 0.4 percent of the total forest area.

Globally, 44 percent of plantation forests are composed mainly of introduced species.