Over 80% of the Amazon rainforest has been lost

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 Over 80% of the Amazon rainforest has been lost

Due to the combined impacts of logging, drought, forest fires, desertification, agriculture and industrial expansion, less than one-fifth of the Amazon now remains.* In addition to mass extinctions of flora and fauna, many indigenous peoples' communities have vanished.

 

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A portion of the Amazon rainforest, 2000-2012. Animation created by Will Fox, using imagery from NASA.

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