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According to the World Economic Forum, about 31% of new diseases emerging in recent times are a result of deforestation.

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Over 90% of people in poverty depend on forests for their livelihood.

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The country with the highest rate of deforestation is India, with 15 million acres of forest destroyed from 2000-2012. This is probably because of their large popultion.

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The average American uses over 700 pounds of paper every year.

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Forests store 283 billion tons of carbon, and 43 billion tons of carbon are released into the atmosphere from human activities.

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Though they only cover 6-7% of the Earth's surface, tropical rainforests contain over half of the plant and animal species in the entire world.

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Deforestation can cause soil erosion because trees put nutrients back in the soil, but without it, there's no nutrients in the soil. This can turn entire landscapes into deserts which cannot be used for agriculture or much of anything.

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With no trees, there's nothing to absorb the water that comes in the form of rain, which can lead to flooding.

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The United States has less than 5% of the world's population but consumes over 30% of the world's paper

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Almost 50% of the world's timber is used by Europe, the U.S. and Japan. About 70% of the world's paper is used by these 3 countries.

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A huge cause of deforestation is overpopulation, because with more people you need more agriculture space and more living space.

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up to 28,000 species are projected to be extinct by 2050 as a result of deforestation.

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Around 36 football fields of forest are destroyed every minute.

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Around 25% of the world's medicine comes from rainforest plants.

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The main cause of deforestation is agriculture, with 80% of global deforestation attributed to it.

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It is estimated that within 100 years, there will be no rainforests.

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Deforestation is responsible for 11% of the greenhouse gases caused by human activity.

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8% of the amazon has been deforested in the last 18 years.

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More than half of North America's coastal temperate rainforests have been destroyed.

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Fires in California have destroyed 4.2 million acres of forest, and 90% of wildfires are caused by humans.