Impact

What impact does deforestation have on our planet? With the forests being taken down and more and more CO2 being released back into the atmosphere, the earth is heating up and animals have less and less places to go to. "Amazonia has both the largest area of tropical forest and the highest rate of deforestation." another good fact is "The Congo Basin, on the other hand, has a lower rate of deforestation, and it's driven mostly by traditional shifting cultivation." also "But there have been setbacks as well. Brazil was able to reduce deforestation by 70 percent between 2004 and 2012, but the Bolsonaro government in the late 2010s weakened enforcement and made racist attacks on Indigenous groups and their lands" another one is "When forests are cut down, much of that stored carbon is released into the atmosphere again as CO2. This is how deforestation and forest degradation contribute to global warming." another good fact is "The consensus among climate scientists is that CO2 from tropical deforestation now makes up less than 10 percent of global warming pollution." last but not least "Today, the greatest amount of deforestation is occurring in tropical rainforests,"