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These forests provide livelihoods for millions of people, and are the cultural and ancestral heart of many indigenous first peoples who live in that area, people who depended on them for tens of thousands of years
According to the index, 17.4 million square kilometers (6.7 million square miles) of remaining forests (40.5%) have high ecological integrity, a measure of human impact calculated using observed human pressure (infrastructure, agriculture, tree cover loss), inferred human pressure based on the proximity to known human pressures, and changes in forest connectivity.
The high-integrity forests are found mostly in Canada, Russia, the Amazon, Central Africa, and New Guinea. Of the remaining high-integrity forests, only 27% are currently in nationally designated protected areas.
