On the world we live on, beautiful tropical forests are being logged for timber and pulp, cleared to grow food, and destroyed by the impacts of climate change. Four out of five of the forest that covered almost half of the Earth's land surface eight thousand years ago have already been irreplaceably degraded or destroyed.
Every couple of seconds, a large area size of a football pitch is lost in the forest due to logging or destructive practices. 72% of Indonesia Congo
Agri-business is responsible for huge rainforest destruction as forests are cleared for palm oil, soya plantations or burned to make way for cattle ranches. The irreplaceable rainforests are converted into products that are used to make animal feed, chocolate and toothpaste. Industrial logging for timber, pulp and paper has also devastated much of the world's rainforests. By building roads into pristine rainforests, the logging industry opens them up to secondary effects hunting, fuel-wood gathering, agriculture and especially human settlement.
Climate change itself threatens forests on a shocking rate. Rising global temperatures damage and kill trees, and increase drought and forest fires. But dying trees release way more carbon, which would just increase our global temperature. This will make it worst for the trees, so it will be a continuous chain for the temperature to increase, so that there going to die quicker.
Greenpeace is campaigning for zero deforestation globally by the year of 2020 because protecting forests is one of the quickest, simplest and for the most part effective ways to prevent climate change, protect the biodiversity and defend the rights of forest communities.
To let the people view how green peace visions it, the international community corporations, forest communities and individuals in consumer countries will need to work together in an unprecedented, concerted effort.
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