Environment Stats: compare key data on Netherlands & Wallis and Futuna

Current issues: This entry lists the most pressing and important environmental problems. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entry:
Proportion of land and marine area under protection: Terrestrial and marine areas protected to total territorial area, percentage.
Proportion of land area under protection: Terrestrial areas protected to total surface area, percentage.

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STAT	Netherlands	Wallis and Futuna
Current issues	water pollution in the form of heavy metals, organic compounds, and nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates; air pollution from vehicles and refining activities; acid rain	deforestation (only small portions of the original forests remain) largely as a result of the continued use of wood as the main fuel source; as a consequence of cutting down the forests, the mountainous terrain of Futuna is particularly prone to erosion; there are no permanent settlements on Alofi because of the lack of natural fresh water resources
Proportion of land and marine area under protection	31.48% Ranked 20th. 6345 times more than Wallis and Futuna	0.00496% Ranked 218th.
Proportion of land area under protection	19.54% Ranked 70th. 118 times more than Wallis and Futuna	0.166% Ranked 214th.

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