摘要：This article reviews existing widely used data through
a specific lens: how does the world’s forest area
appear, when we classify nations according to state
weakness and corruption? When the globe’s forest is viewed
in this way, the results are startling:
• Nearly half of the globe’s forest area (2005) is in nations
racked by “rampant corruption” according to Transparency
International (see chart below).
• A signifcant number of the world’s biodiversity hotspots
occur in such countries.
• One sixth of the world’s forests lie in states classifed as
“fragile” by the uk Department for International
Development (dfid)
