United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has raised urgency for saving forests worldwide and keeping these healthy, warning such water-rich ecosystems’ degradation and global population growth are elevating over a billion people’s risk for water scarcity and water-stressed conditions by 2025.

“As the global population grows and demands for water escalate, safeguarding the water-providing capacity of forests is becoming more urgent,” Ban said in his message for this year’s observance of the annual International Day of Forests (IDF).

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