Assignment #3: As Compared to What?
1 min readSep 23, 2020
Author: Emily Dosal
Class: Visualizing Data
Professor Sarah Slobin
Forest Area (% of total land area)
I was interested in comparing several countries known for both great conservation efforts (New Zealand and Denmark) and forest loss (Cuba), to see how their forest areas have changed gradually from 2000 to 2010, to 2016 (the year where the data ended via UNDP). Nigeria had the lowest outcome, perhaps a combination of lack of conservation and the natural environment…