KEY FINDINGS  
       

Asia
Japan

 

Land area (CIA Fact book) - 374,744 km2
Estimated population 2005 (CIA Fact book) - 127,417,244

Total forest area 2000 (WRI) - 240,810 km2
Natural forest area 2000 (WRI) - 133,990 km2
Annual % forest cover change 1990-2000 (WRI) - no data

Key Findings

Forest zone (zone of analysis) - 85.4% country area
Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL) area - 2,573 km2
% of forest zone occupied by IFL - 0.8%
% world IFL located in country - 0.02%
% of IFL areas located in strict protected areas (WDPA) - 19.2%

IFL forest density assessment

% Closed forests, Open forests and Non-forest ecosystems inside IFL and outside IFL

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Intact Forest Landscapes borders - Google Earth KMZ-file:
Block 18 (6 550 kb)

Intact Forest Landscapes borders - ArcView SHP-file:
Block 18 (2 892 kb)

Intact Forest Landscapes borders - TIFF-file:
Block 18 (12 106 kb)

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Authors

IFL map by: I. Zhuravleva (Greenpeace), P. Potapov (Greenpeace)
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