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Overview Of Deforestation In The Amazon Rainforests

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Overview of Deforestation
Deforestation comes in many forms including, clearing for agriculture, clearing for infrastructure, fires and logging for timbers.
Deforestation impacts the livelihoods of many plant and animal species.
When we remove the forests we are effectively making the climate change issue bigger because we have no way to soak up the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
In the last 50 years 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been lost to deforestation.
Every minute the equivalent to 48 football fields of the world's rainforest is lost.

What are the impacts of Deforestation?
Increased greenhouse gas emissions- Forests remove a lot of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. They can hold up to 210 gigatons of carbon, but when they
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