My Tree-My Planet | A VSS exclusive "Plant a Tree" Campaign
DEFORESTATION AND ITS IMPACT ON OUR PLANET Forests are essential to our future. More than 1.6 billion people depend on them for food, water, fuel, medicines, traditional cultures and livelihoods. Forests also supports 80% of terrestrial biodiversity and play a vital role in safeguarding the climate by naturally sequestering carbon. Yet, each year an average of 13 million hectares of forest disappear, often with devastating impacts on communities and indigenous people. From < https://news.mongabay.com/2014/09/leaders-pledge-to-end-deforestation-by-2030/ > The bane , DEFORESTATION is the continual evacuation of trees to account for something other than forests. This can comprise clearing the land for horticulture or brushing or utilizing the woods for fuel, logging, mining, building or construction. Woodlands spread over 30% of the Earth's property surface, in the past 25 years, shrank by 502,000 square miles (1.3 million square km) - an area bigger tha