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What is the world's tree per person ratio?
Green Daily —
... I have one tree on my property. It certainly does not make up for all of the wood products or oxygen that my family consumes annually. I figure that some of the uninhabited forested portions of the earth make up for my single oak. But how many trees are out there per person? Ecology professor, Nalini Nadkarni thinks she has the answer. ...
Trees and Consumption: A Forest of Calculations
Green Inc. —
... worldwide, as of 2005, was a little over 400 billion. She then divided this total by the world population as of midnight, December 31 of the same year — about 6.5 billion. That yielded 61 trees per person. “This number is one of the interesting things you glom onto, because suddenly you can picture yourself and these trees,” said Ms. Nadkarni, a canopy biologist with 25 years of experience studying and climbing trees in places like Costa Rica, Papua New Guinea and the Amazon. She appeared as a guest on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition last week to discuss her finding, ...
