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| Forests have declined 60%. Fires set are a cheap way for clearing woods. Two thirds of the |
| rain forests lie in Brazil. Ten per cent of the rainforests are destroyed. Scientists say the rainforest will be gone by 2080. Eighty to ninety per cent of all rain forests will be destroyed by 2020. Seventy-eight million acres are destroyed per year. Scientists determine 137 species of plants and animals are extinct every day or 50,000 a year. Rain forests cover about 7% of Earth`s land. Sixty-two million acres are protected. Brazil has the largest remaining area of forest. Two hundred fourteen thousand acres |
| are destroyed per day globally. One animal becomes extinct every 10 minutes. Six to nine |
| million natives inhabited Brazil in 1500, now less than 200,000 inhabit Brazil. |
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| Some forests are shrinking by the day. Some people are trying to save the forests, but most people are not. Three hundred nineteen thousand acres are trying to be saved. Twelve communities are trying to save the forests. About six species become extinct every hour, or one species every 10 minutes. |
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| Clearing has increased by more than 1/3 since 1992. There are 2.47 acres destroyed per second, or 150 acres per minute. Eighteen thousand square miles felled per year. |
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| Sixty million cubic meters of trees are cut. Scientists called 1997 "The year the world caught fire." Fifty thousand square kilometers burned in 1997. It was estimated that more than 1,600 men fought a major fire in 1998. Around 70% of fires happen in deforested areas. Twenty-four thousand five hundred forty-nine fires found in 41 days in 1997. El Nino was blamed for the fires. A 1998 forest fire the size of Belgium roared through Roraima. The Amazon Research Institute says it will take a century to grow back. |
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| Millions of acres have been cut or burned down for lumber. |
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| An area the size of the United Kingdom is being saved. The sale of tropical forest makes eight billion dollars every year. Brazil has the largest remaining area of forest. |
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| Loggers and cattle trample what is left of the forests. People in the United States are |
| destroying the forests. |
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| By: Clinton |
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