Football Field of Rainforest Destroyed Every Six Seconds

Vast tracts of pristine rainforest on three continents went up in smoke last year, with an area roughly the size of Switzerland cut down or burned to make way for cattle and commercial crops, researchers said Tuesday.

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The world lost a football pitch-sized area of tropical forest every six seconds in 2019

Enough rainforest to fill 30 football pitches destroyed every minute last year, The Independent

The world lost a football pitch-sized area of tropical forest every six seconds in 2019

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40 football fields of trees disappeared every minute in 2017

Football pitch' of forest lost every minute

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