Wallis and Futuna Environment Stats

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 area under protection: Terrestrial areas protected to total surface area, percentage.

SHOW ALL

LESS

SHARE TWEET EMBED

STAT	AMOUNT	DATE	RANK	HISTORY
Current issues	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	2011
Proportion of land area under protection	0.166%	2012	214th out of 217

SHOW ALL

LESS

Citation

Adblocker detected! Please consider reading this notice.

We've detected that you are using AdBlock Plus or some other adblocking software which is preventing the page from fully loading.

We don't have any banner, Flash, animation, obnoxious sound, or popup ad. We do not implement these annoying types of ads!

We need money to operate the site, and almost all of it comes from our online advertising.

Please add www.nationmaster.com to your ad blocking whitelist or disable your adblocking software.