Deforestation
Deforestation

Protect Our planet

How can we Stop Deforestaion?

Why Should We Care?

Amidst the magic of nature, where trees sway like ancient storytellers and wildlife finds refuge, forests hold a key to our planet's balance. They're like Earth's lungs, breathing out oxygen and soaking up carbon dioxide.

From cleaning the air we breathe, to providing food we eat and the medicines we take when we’re ill, it can be easy to forget the range of ways forests touch on our everyday lives.

About 1.6 billion people including over 2,000 indigenous cultures rely on forests for their livelihoods. They are also one of the most biologically-diverse ecosystems on land, home to over 80% of terrestrial species of animals, insects and plants.

What are the Causes?

The most common pressures causing deforestation and severe forest degradation are agriculture, unsustainable forest management, mining, infrastructure projects and increased fire incidence and intensity.

Some infrastructure activities, such as road building, have a large indirect effect through opening up forests to settlers and agriculture. Poor forest management and unsustainable fuelwood collection degrade forests and often instigate a "death by a thousand cuts" form of deforestation.

What's Happening?

2,400 trees are cut down each minute. By the time you finish reading this sentence, another three hectares of forest have been cut down. 25.8 million hectares of forest were lost in 2020, double the amount of forested land lost in 2001. At our current rate, all rainforests will be gone in 77 years.

Unfortunately, human impacts have already led to the loss of around 40% of the world’s forests. And we’re losing forests at a rate of 10 million hectares per year. Halting deforestation, protecting and sustainably managing forests, and restoring forests have never been more urgent. Forest degradation is a threat to ecosystems around the globe.

Solutions