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July 28, 2020

How much rainforest is being destroyed?

Primary forests in the tropics are declining at an accelerating rate according to analysis of satellite data released last week by the University of Maryland (UMD) and World Resources Institute (WRI). Since 2002, the tropics lost more than 60 million hectares of primary forests, an area larger than the combined land mass of the states of California and Missouri or the island nation of Madagascar.

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News from our grantees at Mongabay Latam.

The total tropical primary forest loss since 2002 is up to 60 million hectares, an area larger than the combined land mass of the states of California and Missouri.

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