Breaking Up the Amazon Rainforest destroys a significant carbon storage spot for the planet.
Our collective consumption has made it profitable to clear cut rainforests, destroy animal habits, disrupt the lives of indigenous peoples and fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide levels that lead to global warming.
In the year up to July 2014, 1,872 square miles (4,848 sq km) of rainforest was destroyed in Brazil, about a fifth of it along BR-163.
Four square metres of rainforest are destroyed for every gram of cocaine snorted in the UK, a conference of senior police officers as told yesterday.
In the year to August 2004, according to data released this month, 26,130 square kilometres (10,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest were destroyed in Brazil, mostly by ranchers, farmers or speculators who cleared land in anticipation of ranchers and farmers coming.
Santos said 300,000 hectares of rainforest were destroyed each year in Colombia to clear land for coca plant cultivation, predominantly controlled by illegal groups, including the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as Farc.
The environmental group surveyed 14 companies including multinationals such as PepsiCo, Mars and Unilever, and found that none could confidently claim that no Indonesian rainforest was destroyed in the making of their products.
When a rainforest is destroyed, do you think nobody hears the trees scream?
The equivalent of 300 football fields of rainforest is destroyed every hour to make way for palm oil plantations, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.
When the magnificent biodiversity of a carbon-storing rainforest is destroyed for growing oil palms, which produce an unhealthy cooking oil, the climate future of our children suffers.
