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Deforestation, clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.

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The rate of deforestation equals to loss of 20 football fields every minute.

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If the current rate of deforestation continues, it will take less than 100 years to destroy all the rainforests on the earth.

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20% of the world’s oxygen is produced in the Amazon rainforestforest.

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25% of cancers fighting organisms are found in the amazon.

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Up to 28,000 species are expected to become extinct by the next quarter of the century due to deforestation.

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How to help, visite these websites: greenpeace.org & worldlandtrust.org

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Poodwaddle Deforestation Clock - Over 3 million hectares (8 million acres) of forest disappear each year. There are less than 4 billion hectares (less than 10 billion acres) remaining.