50 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Rainforests

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Our rainforests are amazing, diverse ecosystems on which the environment depends.

Yet increasingly we are losing our forests to industries like logging and farming.

In fact, every year about 12 – 15 million hectares of forest are lost each year, according to the WWF, that’s about 36 football fields per minute.

This is not a sustainable practise.

This beautiful infographic gives a great run down of why our rainforests are so critical and what makes them unique.

Amazing Facts About the Rainforest

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