RAINFORESTS IN DANGER

This photo shows how the rainforests look when all the trees have been cut down and been made into paper.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

There are lots of things we know about the disappearing rainforests;

• Rainforests used to cover 14% of the earth but now it only covers 6% of the earth.
• One and half acres of rainforest is lost every second
• 137 different types of plants, animals and insects are lost every day
• There used to be 10 million people living in the Amazon 500 years ago, now there are only 200,000•
• More than 20% of the worlds oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest
• The Baka people in Cameroon are losing their homes because of rainforests are being cut down