The department uses the same definition of forest as Pathfinder.
Forest is defined as evergreen, deciduous, or mangrove forest.
FAO FAO's figures come from its State of the World's Forests 1997 . FAO revised the 1990 figures that appeared in its 1990 Forest Resources Assessment based on updated world population figures and new national forest inventories available in 1996. Forest is defined as land with a tree canopy cover of at least 10 percent and includes both natural forest and plantations. Although differences in data sources and interpretation methods preclude a precise estimation of deforestation trends, the table indicates a doubling in the deforestation rate beginning in the late 1980s. A visual presentation of the remaining habitat is shown in the Interactive Forest Maps of Burma .