How does deforestation impact the health and well-being of local populations?

Close to 20 percent of the Amazon has been destroyed over the past fifty years, and some scientists say the tipping point, or the point at which the forest's ... Jul 21, 2023 ... More than 18 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has so far been destroyed, and a further 17 per cent is degraded. As their habitats disappear ... Dec 19, 2020 ... ... were cleared––an area about the size of the island of Hawaii. “The media has been showing that the Amazon has been destroyed and [that] we ... Sep 18, 2023 ... Over the last 40 years, approximately 20% of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has been destroyed. This is equivalent to about 800,000 square ... Oct 23, 2024 ... How Much Forest Loss Is Linked to Mining? Of the 1.4 million hectares of mining-related tree cover loss from 2001 to 2020, 450,000 hectares were ... Apr 7, 2023 ... ... forest had been destroyed in March in the Brazilian Amazon. That is a 14 percent increase compared to March 2022, when far-right president ... Jul 19, 2019 ... Much has been written about the destruction of the Amazon forest ... been destroyed, in Brazil alone over 81 percent of it remains untouched. By the year 2022 around 26% of the forest was considered as deforested or highly degraded. ... According to the Council on Foreign Relations, 300,000 square miles ... In Brazil, this has been the case since at least the 1970s: government figures attributed 38 percent of deforestation from 1966–1975 to large-scale cattle ... ... Amazon Rainforest, the largest tropical forest. Each year, in December ... In just 50 years, almost 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed.