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Deforestation is the clearing of trees, transforming a forest into clear land. It has many side effects that damage the quality of life all over the world.

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Only 6% of Central Africa's rainforests are protected by law🌳

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Brazil has the highest annual rate of deforestation today 🇧🇷

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Rainforests are home to more than 50% of the plant and animal species on Earth🌎

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Each year, forests as large as Panama are lost😕

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The quickest solution to deforestation would be to simply stop cutting down trees

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Farmers cut forests to provide more room for planting crops or grazing livestock 🌾🐔

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Deforestation is clearing Earth's forests on a massive scale, often resulting in damage to the quality of the land 🏞

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Deforestation deprives the forest of portions of its canopy. This disruption leads to temperature swings that can be harmful to wildlife 🌤🌳

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Deforestation also drives climate change. Forest soils are moist, but without protection from sun-blocking tree cover they quickly dry out

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On an average, a person in the United States uses more than 700 pounds of paper every year📝📒

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Tropical rainforests which cover 6-7% of the earth’s surface, contain over half of all the plant and animal species in the world!

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1.6 billion people across the globe depend on forest products for their livelihoods there by adding more to deforestation 👫🌳👫

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4500 acres of forests are cleared every hour by forest fires, bull dozers, machetes etc🌳🚜

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1/2 of the world’s tropical forests has already been cleared😔🌳

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Deforestation has considerably stopped in places like Europe, North America and some parts of Asia due to lack of agricultural land 👌🏼

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Up to 28,000 species are expected to become extinct by the next quarter of the century due to deforestation 🌿🍃

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20% of the world’s oxygen is produced in the Amazon forest 🌳💨

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The United States has less than 5% of the world’s population yet it consumes more than 30% of the world’s paper📚

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There are more than 121 natural remedies in the rain forest which can be used as medicines🌲💊