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almost a third of land on Earth is covered by forests as a matter of fact our little blue planet is actually pretty green so let’s take a look at the top 10 facts about a forest Fact one there are havens of biodiversity forests
1 Forests are Infinite
are home to 80% of all landbased species
Some people might believe that forests are so vesting that they are essentially limitless.
of plants animals and insects in turn Forest species help keep their habitats
healthy spreading seeds from the fruit they eat and acting as important
pollinators Fact Two they are full of
secrets we still don’t know all there is
to know about our forests. However, forests cover about 36% of Earth’s land area, every country and their extent is decreasing due to deforestation.
2 Forests Are Just a Collection of Trees:
There could be
as many as 9,000 tree species still unknown to science and we already know about 66,000 of them fact three. They can make rain it’s not Magic Forest move so much water from the soil to our
atmosphere that they can create their own localized weather systems parts of the Amazon can even trigger their own
rainy season fact four they are great at storing carbon carbon storage is the process of capturing and trapping carbon
or CO2 keeping it out of the atmosphere
forests is so good at it that. Forests are incredibly complex ecosystems with diverse flora and fauna
3 All Forests Are the Same:
Forests vary greatly in terms of climate.
they
become giant carbon sinks trapping more carbon than they produce fact five tropical forests are the carbon storing
Champions forests in South America hold around 30% of all the CO2 stored in our
planet’s forests that’s about 82 gatons.
4 Forests Are Always Green and Lush:
While many people imagine forests as dense, green.
fact six deforestation releases that CO2 in our atmosphere losing trees is bad
in our atmosphere losing trees is bad in our atmosphere losing trees is bad
enough cutting down forests represents a
tragic loss of habitats species and livelihoods but deforestation also creates a dangerous feedback loop as all
the carbon stored in these destroyed
forests is released back into the atmosphere accentuating the impacts of climate change and pushing forests
5 Forests Are Impenetrable Wildernesses
Many have been shaped by human activity for millennia. Towards tipping points fact seven
forests used to cover half of our
earth’s land today they still cover a
third but it used to be so much more
sadly the total number of trees has been
almost HED since the start of human
civilization and we are still losing
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more every day around 15 billion trees
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are being cut down each year and that’s
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roughly a football pitch every 2 seconds
fact eight the UK has a responsibility
to protect forests across. Indigenous peoples around the world have managed forests sustainably for.
6 Forests Are Untouched by Human Activity:
Unfortunately, human activity has profoundly impacted forests worldwide.The world in 2018 the UK was the second net importer
of Forest Products in the world that’s
beef leather Timber soil palm oil Pulp and Paper cocoa and rubber to supply an
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annual demand of these products we require an area that’s 88% the size of
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deforestation our leaders promis to
bring an end to deforestation in our
supply chain . their toll on forest ecosystems, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem stability.
7 Forests Are Solely a Source of Timber:
they offer much more than just wood products.
but they are off track to
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deliver this important pledge fact nine
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your money could be contributing to the destruction of forest and other vital destruction of forest and other vital destruction of forest and other vital habitats by no real fault of Europe
wwf’s Forest Pathways report found that
governments are spending between 378
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billion And1 trillion pounds of Public
Funding on subsidies tax breaks and incentives that could harm these
important ecosystems that’s a hundred
times more than on projects aiming to restore
8 Forests Are Not Relevant to Urban Life:
our forests fact 10 there is hope for our forests we are seeing forests recover around the world thanks to the hard work of indigenous peoples local communities Charities Partners committed governments and passionate individuals in the UK the wild inor project has seen around 85,000 native
trees planted to restore our L biodiversity in Tanzania 73,500 trees have been planted in
9 Forests Are Resilient to Climate Change:
The
Last 5 Years in the pugu kazim zum W Nature Reserve in the Amazon indigenous people are training to use drones to
help protect their lands and Forest from illegal deforestation we can all play our part in bringing our forests back to
life you can call on leaders to keep the promises they made at cop 26 to Halt
10 Forests Are Expanding Everywhere:
Reverse deforestation by 20130 you can
demand that our food systems no longer
fuel the destruction of our forests and if you would like to take a step further you can help support our Vital restoration work by becoming a WWF member today we hope you enjoyed this video and learned more about the beauty and power of our forests as well as the urgent need to protect them you can find.
ensure the health and resilience of forest ecosystems for future generations.
Our forests are crucial for nature, wildlife, people, and our climate. Learn more about the power of these incredible habitats and the urgent need to protect them. Our forests are in crisis. Climate change, deforestation and damage from wildfires in places like the Amazon, Congo and the rainforests of South East Asia are having devastating impacts.
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