Deforestation of the Amazon Although forests are a renewable resource, the rate of deforestation is too high to be covered by the rate of reproduction. Millions of hectares of deciduous and coniferous forests are destroyed every year.

Rainforests, which are home to more than 50% of the species on Earth, previously covered 14% of the planet, but now only 6%. India’s forested areas have shrunk from 22% to 10% over the past half century. Coniferous forests of the central regions of Russia, forest tracts in the Far East and Siberia are being destroyed, and swamps appear at the site of felling. Valuable pine and cedar forests are cut down.

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