RAINFOREST DESTRUCTION

Did you know that there are rainforests in the world being destructed faster than the Amazon?

A 4-SQUARE MILE RAINFOREST

• 1,500 flowering plant species
• 750 tree species
• 400 bird species
• 125 mammal species
• 150 butterfly species

THE AMAZON RAINFOREST

• Illegal logging, farming and mining
• 4,100 miles of river
• 40,000 endangered plant species
• 3,000 endangered freshwater fish species
• Estimated 30 million insect species

THE CONGO RAINFOREST

• Area the size of England logged since 2002
• 10,000 endangered tropical plant species
• 1,000 bird species
• Illegal logging, mining, hunting and trade

THE INDONESIAN RAINFOREST

• 1,000 endangered bird species
• 222 endangered reptile species
• 700 endangered fish species
• Illegal logging, farming and fires
• Destroyed by a decade

PERCENT DESTROYED

SOLUTIONS

• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!
• Fight poaching and ranching
• Fight illegal logging and mining
• Use less electricity, paper, water...

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