A total of 6.7 million hectares of tropical forest were lost last year—nearly double the amount lost in 2023. That equates to 18 football fields of rainforest destroyed every minute.

https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/record-high-tropical-forest-loss-in-2024/id3101848/

by Wagamaga

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  1. A total of 6.7 million hectares of tropical forest were lost last year—nearly double the amount lost in 2023. That equates to 18 football fields of rainforest destroyed every minute.

    “These numbers must be a wake-up call for the world. We cannot reach our climate goals without protecting rainforests. The international community must act now,” said Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment, Andreas Bjelland Eriksen.

    Half of the forest loss was due to fire, according to the report from Global Forest Watch and the University of Maryland. Fires are often intentionally set to clear land for agriculture, but frequently spiral out of control.

  2. When all the trees are gone, and all the green turns brown,

    When all the water is tainted, and poisons run deep in the ground.

    When birds no longer sing, and bees no longer buzz, when fish no longer swim in the waters, and deer no longer run.

    Where will we go for shelter, when 1000 year storms are the norm, how will we fill our childrens’ bellies when this new world has taken form.

  5. Slash and burn subsistence farming is an issue that is regularly downplayed and ignored so, not to detract from that at all but, what was the other ~50% caused by? Why is that not even touched in this article?

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