This document discusses deforestation around the world. It notes that forests currently cover 31% of the land but are being lost at a rate of 46-58 thousand square miles per year, equivalent to 36 football fields per minute. Deforestation is a major threat in tropical rainforests, which contain much of the world's biodiversity. For example, 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been lost in the last 50 years mostly due to cattle ranching and agriculture. Deforestation in the Amazon increased 28% from 2012 to 2013, with over 5,800 square km of forest destroyed. The document lists some of the key causes of deforestation as illegal logging, fires, and fuelwood harvesting.

1. DEFORESTATION
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2. Deforestation
• One of the biggest factor of deforestation is the Human
being!
• Forests cover 31% of the land area on our planet. They
produce vital oxygen and provide homes for people and
wildlife. But forests around the world are under threat from
deforestation, jeopardizing these benefits.This impacts
people’s livelihoods and threatens a wide range of plant
and animal species. Some 46-58 thousand square miles
of forest are lost each year—equivalent to 36 football
fields every minute.

3. • Deforestation is a particular concern in tropical rainforests
because these forests are home to much of the world’s
biodiversity. For example, in the Amazon around 17% of
the forest has been lost in the last 50 years, mostly due to
forest conversion for cattle ranching. Deforestation in this
region is particularly rampant near more populated areas,
roads and rivers, but even remote areas have been
encroached upon when valuable mahogany, gold and oil
are discovered.

4. News:
Deforestation in Amazon
• The deforestation in Amazon raise 28% between August
of 2012 and July of 2013. In that period were destroyed
5843 km2 of forest, the equivalent of about 600 football
field.
• Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a
voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
Greenpeace

5. Causes
• Deforestation can happen quickly, such as when a fire
sweeps through the landscape or the forest is clear-cut to
make way for an oil palm plantation. It can also happen
gradually as a result of ongoing forest degradation as
temperatures rise due to climate change caused by
human activity. While deforestation appears to be on the
decline in some countries, it remains disturbingly high in
others and a grave threat to our world’s most valuable
forests still remains.

6. • ILLEGAL LOGGING
National laws regulate the production and trade of timber
products at all stages, from harvesting to processing to
sales.
• FIRES
Fires are a natural and beneficial element of many forest
landscapes, but they are problematic when they occur in
the wrong place, at the wrong frequency or at the wrong
severity.
• FUELWOOD HARVESTING
Wood is still a popular fuel choice for cooking and heating
around the world, and about half of the illegal removal of
timber from forests is thought to be for use as fuelwood.

7. “We kill all the caterpillars, then
complain there are not butterflies.” –
John Marsden