The increase in trees is due to a number of factors, including conservation and preservation of national parks, responsible tree growing within plantations — which have been planting more trees than they harvest — and the movement of the majority of the population from rural areas to more densely populated areas, such ...

Are more trees being planted than cut down?

Today, annual tree harvest vs. production on a world-wide scale shows that humans cut down approximately 15 billion trees a year and re-plant about 5 billion. That's a net loss of 10 billion trees every year, and a rate that would mean the loss of all trees within the next 300 years.

Are the number of trees increasing?

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the forest growth rate in the US has more than quadrupled between today and 1920. The majority of this growth has been happening on the East Coast, where the number of trees in the area has doubled within the last 70 years.