People have already cut down 20% of the Amazon. If another 20% disappears, that could trigger a feedback loop known as a "dieback," in which the forest could dry out and become a savannah.

Campaigns that educate people about the destruction caused by rain forest timber and encourage purchasing of sustainable rain forest products could drive demand down enough to slow deforestation ...

In the last 100 years, over half of the World's rainforests have been cut down. Scientists estimate that 10,000 acres of rainforest are destroyed each day. An acre is roughly the size of one and ...

it cannot give up road construction and mining in the world's largest rainforest, Mourão said. “We cannot abandon the possibility of exploiting the great mining wealth of the Amazon.