How many trees are felled each year?

How many trees are felled each year?

15.3 billion trees

How many trees are being cut down every day?

Throughout the world, about 900 million trees are cut down annually. This equates to about 2.47 million trees cut down every day.

How much rainforest is destroyed every year?

Rainforests are being destroyed at a pace of 8 million hectares per year. According to analysis of satellite data, tropical forests are being destroyed at a rate of at least 8 million hectares or 31,000 square miles a year.

Are we losing our rainforests?

More than half of Earth’s rain forests have already been lost due to the human demand for wood and arable land. Rain forests that once grew over 14 percent of the land on Earth now cover only about 6 percent.

What percentage of rainforests are left?

Using data from the forest monitoring program Global Forest Watch, Rainforest Foundation Norway found that only 36 per cent of the planet’s nearly 14.6 million square kilometres of tropical rainforest remains intact, while 34 per cent of it is completely gone and the remaining 30 per cent has been degraded.

What are the 3 largest rainforests?

The 10 largest rainforests in the world

• The Amazon. Covering an area of over 1.2 billion acres, the Amazon rainforest is the largest in the world.
• The Congo Rainforest.
• Bosawas Biosphere Reserve.
• Daintree Rainforest.
• Southeast Asian Rainforest.
• Tongass National Forest.
• Kinabalu National Park.
• Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve.

How long until the rainforest is gone?

With the current rate of deforestation, the world’s rainforests will be gone by 2100. The rainforest is home to more than half of all species on Earth.

Why is climate change a threat to rainforests?

Changing climate leads to forest degradation. Once sufficiently degraded, the forest will lose its ability to generate its own rainfall, thereby preventing the rainforest ecosystem from being able to exist at all. As temperatures increase, so do forest fires.

How do we stop climate change?

Demand Climate Action

1. Speak up!
2. Power your home with renewable energy.
3. Weatherize, weatherize, weatherize.
4. Invest in energy-efficient appliances.
5. Reduce water waste.
6. Actually eat the food you buy—and make less of it meat.
7. Buy better bulbs.
8. Pull the plug(s).