Östersjö

What is the first image that pops up into your head at the mention of the word ‘deforestation’? I, for one, am immediately transported to the lush tropical forests of the Amazon basin. Rightfully so, as, according to a recent report by the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP), the Amazon lost more than two million hectares of primary forest in 2020 alone. Nigeria, the Philippines and many other countries are, sadly, not far behind.