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1 - Deforestation by definition is the permanent removal of trees to form room for something besides the forests. this could include clearing the land for agriculture or grazing or using the timber for fuel, construction, or manufacturing.
2 - These forested areas can provide food, medicine, and fuel for quite a billion people. Worldwide, forests provide 13.4 million people with jobs within the forest sector, and another 41 million people have jobs associated with forests.
3 - Forests cover more than 30% of the Earth's land surface
4 - About half the forests in the eastern part of the continent were cut down for timber and farming between the 1600s and late 1800s
5 -Today, most deforestation is happening in the tropics. These tropics lost about 61,000 square miles (158,000 square kilometers) of forest in 2017 — an area the size of Bangladesh.
6 - Often, deforestation occurs when a forested area is cut and cleared to make way for agriculture or grazing. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) reports that just four commodities are responsible for tropical deforestation: beef, soy, palm oil, and wood products.
7 - Forests can be found from the tropics to high-latitude areas. They are home to 80% of terrestrial biodiversity, containing a wide array of trees, plants, animals, and microbes.
8 - In countries like Uganda, people rely on trees for firewood, timber, and charcoal.
9 - Three-quarters of the Earth’s freshwater comes from forested watersheds, and the loss of trees can affect water quality.
10 - Deforestation in tropical regions can also affect the way water vapor is produced over the canopy, which causes reduced rainfall.
11 - Trees also absorb carbon dioxide, mitigating greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activity. Tropical trees alone are estimated to provide about 23% of the climate mitigation that's needed to offset climate change.
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