The Global Impact of Rainforest Deforestation

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The Global Impact of Rainforest Deforestation
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Did you know that today only about 3 percent America's original rainforests remain? The fate of the world's rainforests isn't much better. Even though about half of the worlds plant and animal species live in rainforests, over 23 million acres of this land is destroyed each year, driving approximately 50,000 species to extinction every year. Scientists project that at this rate - thirty acres of trees cut every minute (the area the size of a football field cut every second) - a quarter of the world's species will be exterminated in the next 50 years. But the effects of deforestation don't stop there. Here's a look at the major ways in which deforestation is impacting our world and our lives today.

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