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How many trees are being cut down in the Amazon rain forest every minute?
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∙ 10y ago
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) found that
Between 1990 and 2005 Brazil lost 2,974,867 hectares (7,351,000 acres) of Amazon Rainforests annually.
That's 8,150 ha per day, 340 ha per hour, 5.6 ha every minute. Or 10.5 football fields every minute. (An American Football field measures 0.53 ha (1.32 acres))
Worldwide tropical deforestation rates increased 8.5 percent from 2000-2005 when compared with the 1990s.
Tropical rainforests lost 10,240,133 hectares (25 million acres) annually between 1990 and 2005.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 10y agothere were 12000 trees cut down in Amazon rain forest.
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∙ 11y agoaround 1 tree gets cut from the amazon a year
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∙ 12y ago20% of the rainforest have been cut down
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1.4 million
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What is happening to the rain forests?
the rain forest are being cut down. 2000 trees are cut down every minute. 500 every sec
Are there 7400 trees being cut down in the rain forest every minute?
yes there are even more 1987000 trees are being cut down.
How much forest is destroyed every minute?
60
Is there any pollution in the amazon rain forest?
There is pollution in every river in the world.
What climate zone is the Amazon rainforest?
In the amazon rain forest it is very warm and humide they get rainfall every day at 4PM
How many trees get cut down every year in the Amazon rain forest?
Not Enough A lot
How much water does the amazon rain forest receive every year?
700 billion liters
How many hectares of trees are being logged every minute?
There are over 150 hectares that are being logged every minute. Our need for paper products and land are the driving factors.
How many acres of rain forest are destroyed every day in Brazil and why?
Unbelievably, over 200,000 acres of rainforest are burned every day. That is over 150 acres lost every minute of every day, and 78 million acres are lost every year! The latest statistics in the Brazilian Amazon show a 34 percent increase in deforestation since 1992.
Is the Amazon rainforest being logged?
Yes, every day. every second of every day
How many acres of trees are cut down in the amazon every minute?
proboly about 1907 per second
What climat zone is the rainforest?
In the amazon rain forest it is very warm and humide they get rainfall every day at 4PM
