According to the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), more than an acre and a half is lost every second of everyday.
If we continue to destroy our rainforests, half of the rainforest will be gone by the year of 2025 and by 2060 there will be no rainforests.
Every second . . we lose an area the size of two football fields!
Every minute . . we lose an area 29 times the size of the Pentagon!
Every hour . . . we lose an area 684 times larger than the New Orleans Superdome!
Every day . . . we lose an area larger than all five boroughs of New York City!
Every week . . . we lose an area twice the size of Rhode Island!
Every month . . .we lose an area the size of Belize!
Every year . . . we lose an area more than twice the size of Florida!
- a single rainforest reserve in Peru is home to more species of birds than the entire United States.
- almost half of the worlds original four billion acres of rainforest are now gone. That is equivalent to the combined size of Washington, Idaho, California, Nevada, and Arizona.
- By the conservative estimates, nine thousand species are going extinct each year. Most of them are from the rainforests.
- we are currently experiencing the largest mass extinction since the end of dinosaurs, which was sixty five million years ago. The only thing is, this time It is occurring at a must faster rate.
Not only are we destroying trees that help our environment, we are also destroying over half the plants and animal species that live on this earth. If we don’t take an immediate action in turning things around for the better, there will be numerous extinctions and it would lead to a destruction of our ecosystem.
Many scientists believe that the earth could become uninhabitable for every living species, including humans.
