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• Of the estimated original 4 billion acres of Rainforest, only about 2.7 billion remain.
• Over the last 50 years, more than half of the world’s tropical forests have been destroyed.
• We are losing our Rainforest at an average rate of 75 acres every minute; 108,000 acres a day, and over 39 million acres per year.
• Over 90 different Amazonian tribes are thought to have disappeared since 1900.
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