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How many trees are being cut in a minute in the world? How many trees are being planted in a minute in the world?

Question #113932. Asked by SiegeTank55.
Last updated Jul 17 2021.

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Answer has 17 votes.
Couldn't find those specific numbers; but found this.

Deforestation is the clearance of naturally occurring forests by logging and burning.

Deforestation occurs for many reasons: trees or derived charcoal are used as, or sold, for fuel or as a commodity, while cleared land is used as pasture for livestock, plantations of commodities, and settlements. The removal of trees without sufficient reforestation has resulted in damage to habitat, biodiversity loss and aridity. It has adverse impacts on biosequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Deforested regions typically incur significant adverse soil erosion and frequently degrade into wasteland.

Reforestation is the restocking of existing forests and woodlands which have been depleted.[1] Reforestation can be used to improve the quality of human life by soaking up pollution and dust from the air, rebuild natural habitats and ecosystems, mitigate global warming since forests facilitate biosequestration of atmospheric carbon dioxide, and harvest for resources, particularly timber.

The term reforestation is similar to afforestation, the process of restoring and recreating areas of woodlands or forest that may have existed long ago but were deforested or otherwise removed at some point in the past.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforestation

Apr 06 2010, 8:50 PM
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Rainforests cover only a small part of the Earth but they are home to more than half the world's plants and animals. It is estimated that rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 trees per minute.

The rates of rainforest destruction are 2.4 acres per second, 149 acres per minute, 214,000 acres per day and 78 million acres per year. Just to put things in perspective, as you read this sentence, an area the size of 78 Olympic sized swimming pools would have been cut down.

link http://www.friedbeef.com/6-innovative-ways-to-save-trees-online/

link https://rainforests.mongabay.com/kids/lesson_plans/lisa_algee/deforestation.html

Response last updated by CmdrK on Jul 17 2021.
Apr 07 2010, 12:57 PM
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