New York is the largest city in the United States, with the city proper's population more than double the next largest city, Los Angeles (or roughly equivalent to the combined populations of Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston, the United States' second, third, and fourth most populous cities respectively).
Comprised of 2.6 million acres in the Adirondack Forest Preserve and 286,000 acres within the Catskill Forest Preserve, these lands represent a majority of all state owned property within the Adirondack and Catskill Parks.
Although WWF's call for zero net deforestation focuses on the need to stop forest loss, avoiding forest degradation is equally important in reducing carbon emissions, preserving biodiversity, and maintaining critical services for people, particularly, local communities and indigenous groups.ften, forest degradation is a process whereby areas of natural forest are gradually transformed into degraded land or replaced by other land uses. Managing forests to avoid degradation is often a key strategy to prevent deforestation. WWF therefore works on both deforestation and forest degradation.