What are the social and economic impacts of deforestation on indigenous communities?

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 ... Feb 28, 2023 ... Washington sent large amounts of money to destroy it. Or preserve it, they said. By 1994 fully half of the Amazon rainforest had been burned or ... Mar 11, 2021 ... Scientists estimate that 17 percent of all the Amazon has already been deforested. If the current rate of destruction continues, between 20 ... Jan 18, 2025 ... Since then, it is estimated that 13 percent has been lost due to deforestation, bringing the total size of the rainforest to about 560 million ... Oil palm plantations currently cover more than 27 million hectares of the Earth's surface. Forests and human settlements have been destroyed and replaced by “ ... 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. Sep 3, 2022 ... From 2015-2020, an estimated 10 million hectares worldwide were deforested each year. Environmental scientists warn that forest restoration is ... Yet, in 2020, ninety percent of the Guató tribes' land in Brazil has been destroyed, obliterating their crops and wild plants, to give just one example. Overall ... ... Amazon Rainforest, the largest tropical forest. Each year, in December ... In just 50 years, almost 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed. Jul 14, 2021 ... ... destruction of the Amazon rainforest - 35% of which has already been deforested or degraded, according to the draft of a landmark scientific ...