Fun Facts
- Forests cover over 30% of earths total land
- We lose 147 plants and animals everyday due to deforestation
- One and a half acres of forest is being cut down every second
- 1.6 billion people across the globe depend on forest products for their livelihoods there by adding more to deforestation
- Soil erosion, floods, wildlife extinction, increase in global warming, and climate imbalance are few of the effects of deforestation
- The world’s forests store 283 billion tons of carbon present in the biomass.
- Up to 28,000 species are expected to become extinct by the next quarter of the century due to deforestation
- 4500 acres of forests are cleared every hour by forest fires, bull dozers, machetes etc
- The rate of deforestation equals to loss of 20 football fields every minute
- We have already lost nearly 50% of the world's original forests
- Deforestation is the source of 15-20% of global carbon emissions
- Each year, we lose 13 million hectares of forests
- Agriculture is the main cause of deforestation.