What is happening to our rain forests?
27 million acres of the Earth’s rain forests are destroyed each year due to man. The activities which threaten the rain forests are: agriculture, clearing and developing of land, beef cattle ranching, logging, and the building of dams and hydroelectric plants. This results in a loss of 100 acres of rain forest per minute and 80% of the rain forests in the world are now gone. The destruction of the world’s rain forests at this rate causes 10,000 plant and animal species to become extinct each year.
