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[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/rainforest-threats by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC] | [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/rainforest-threats by NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC] | ||
More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and arable land. Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now cover only about 6 percent. And if current deforestation rates continue, these critical habitats could disappear from the planet completely within the next hundred years. | More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and arable land. Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now cover only about 6 percent. And if current deforestation rates continue, these critical habitats could disappear from the planet completely within the next hundred years. | ||
=====Congo Basin Forests===== | |||
[https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/forests/congo-basin/ by GREENPEACE] | |||
Stopping illegal logging and forest exploitation in Central Africa’s threatened tropical rainforest | |||
The vast forest of the Congo Basin is the second-largest tropical rainforest on Earth and serves as the lungs of Africa. It’s an incredibly rich and diverse ecosystem that provides food, freshwater, shelter and medicine for tens of millions of local and Indigenous Peoples and is home to critically endangered wildlife species. | |||
