Fifteen percent of the Amazon Rainforest has already been destroyed.
Since the 1970s, an area of ancient rainforest the size of France has
been lost. In 2000 alone, almost two million hectares of rainforest in
the Brazilian Amazon were lost to illegal and destructive logging, mining,
industrial agricultural plantations and other human industries such as
road building. A significant part of what remains is under direct threat,
as are the forest plants, animals and people who depend upon the forest.
One of the greatest dangers to the Amazon rainforest is illegal and destructive
logging.
There is no single solution to saving the Amazon rainforest and stopping
the destruction. The solutions for the forest and the peoples whose ways
of life depend upon it must be based on a wide range of socially and ecologically
responsible initiatives.
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