I n the next second, there will be more than 1.3 acres of forest disappearing from the Earth's surface; in the next minute, about 75 acres would be gone. That is 108,000 acres daily and over 40 million acres a year. Just imagine an area of tropical rainforest the size of six football pitches being lost every minute. Scary isn't it? But this is something really happening in our world of today. What worse is that the soil in tropical rainforests is only productive for a couple of years and then the land is lost.

T he tropical rainforests combat the greenhouse effect, provide a livelihood for native peoples, and are home to more than 50% of the world's plant and animal species, moreover, many of these species are located in small parts of the rainforest ecosystems and are not found anywhere else on Earth. Yet all these reasons are still not enough to discourage man from destroying the rainforests directly and indirectly.