What are the potential long-term consequences for humanity if the destruction of the Amazon rainforest continues unabated?

Historically, the Forest Code has been nearly impossible to implement and monitor. Clear ownership records exist for only 10 percent of private land in the ... Oct 23, 2019 ... ... percent of the Amazon has been destroyed . . . an area twice the ... Amazon to permanently maintain 80 percent of the land as forest. Nov 23, 2021 ... In Brazil, this has been the case since at least the 1970s: government figures attributed 38 percent of deforestation from 1966-1975 to large- ... Mar 17, 2025 ... It's estimated that roughly 20 percent of the Amazon Rainforest has disappeared during the past 50 years. ... There's been a lot of damage ... Major countries: About 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest lies within the ... The situation is changing however: deforestation has been trending sharply upward ... Dec 21, 2017 ... Around 20 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has been ... 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 ... Sep 20, 2022 ... In a newly released report, the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) estimates that 13.2% of the original Amazon forest biome has been ... 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 ... Less than one percent of the tropical rainforest species have actually been analyzed for their medicinal value. ... were cut down to make grazing land for cattle ...