A woodland is a place of land ruled with the aid of using timber.[1] Hundreds of definitions of woodland are used all through the world, incorporating elements along with tree density, tree height, land use, criminal standing, and ecological function.[2][3][4] The United Nations` Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines a woodland as, "Land spanning greater than zero.five hectares with timber better than five meters and a cover cowl of greater than 10 percentage, or timber capable of attain those thresholds in situ. It does now no longer consist of land this is predominantly below agricultural or city use."[5] Using this definition, Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FRA 2020) located that forests blanketed 4.06 billion hectares (10.zero billion acres; 40.6 million rectangular kilometres; 15.7 million rectangular miles), or about 31 percentage of the world's land region in 2020.Forests are the main terrestrial surroundings of Earth, and are located across the globe.[7] More than 1/2 of of the world`s forests are located in most effective 5 countries (Brazil, Canada, China, the Russian Federation, and the US of America). The biggest proportion of forests (forty five percentage) are withinside the tropical latitudes, observed with the aid of using the ones withinside the boreal, temperate, and subtropic domains.[8] 
 
Forests account for 75% of the gross number one manufacturing of the Earth's biosphere, and comprise eighty% of the Earth's plant biomass. Net number one manufacturing is envisioned at 21.nine gigatonnes of biomass in line with 12 months for tropical forests, 8.1 for temperate forests, and 2.6 for boreal forests.[7] 
 
Forests at extraordinary latitudes and elevations, and with extraordinary precipitation and evapotranspiration[9] shape especially extraordinary biomes: boreal forests across the North Pole, tropical wet forests and tropical dry forests across the Equator, and temperate forests on the center latitudes. Areas at better elevations generally tend to help forests just like the ones at better latitudes, and the quantity of precipitation additionally impacts woodland composition. 
 
Almost 1/2 of the woodland place (forty nine percentage) is surprisingly intact, whilst nine percentage is located in fragments with very little connectivity. Tropical rainforests and boreal coniferous forests are the least fragmented, while subtropical dry forests and temperate oceanic forests are a few of the maximum fragmented. Roughly eighty percentage of the world's woodland place is located in patches large than 1 million hectares (2.five million acres). The ultimate 20 percentage is positioned in extra than 34 million patches across the world – the huge majority much less than 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) in size.[8] 
 
Human society and forests have an effect on every different in each effective and bad ways.[10] Forests offer surroundings offerings to human beings and function vacationer attractions. Forests also can have an effect on people's health. Human activities, which includes unsustainable use of woodland resources, can negatively have an effect on woodland ecosystems.