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Researchers found that the total forest loss between 2002 and 2019 was larger than the size of France, with more than half of the destruction happening in the Amazon region.
Tropical rainforests once covered 13% of Earth's surface. Now, only one-third of that remains intact, according to a new study.
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Bangladesh saw destruction or degradation of 66 square kilometres of tropical rainforest, roughly the size of Narayanganj city, over the last 17 years, according to a report by the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN). Around four square kilometres of tropical rainforest in the country had been destroyed or degraded every year from 2002 to 2019, it says. The report points out that the total area of tropical rainforest in Bangladesh was reduced to 900 square km in 2019 from 966 square km in 2001. It also mentions that roughly 64 percent of the world's tropical rainforest has been destroyed or de...
comments This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. Feel free to republish and share widely. New data from a Norwegian nonprofit is generating fresh concerns about humanity's destruction of the natural world, revealing Monday that people have ravaged about two-thirds of original tropical rainforest cover globally. The Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) analysis found that human activities including logging and land-use changes—often for farming—have destroyed 34% of old-growth tropical rainforests and deg...