these unstocked forest areas are areas that have been deforested due to various disturbances such as forestry andor nonforestry operations overgrazing overexploitation for fuelwood and timber repeated fires and attacks by insects and diseases figure these areas are expected to be regenerated nonforest areas million ha include areas within forest land which include high mountain subalpine tundra vegetation mountain slopes rocky areas meadows and tree nurseries however due to its small population million people and vast territory and thus its low population density inhabitantskm one of the lowest in the world mongolia is not designated a low forest cover country on the basis of its ratio of forested area per capita which is hacapita the global ratio is hacapita