One fifth of the Amazon rainforest lost to deforestation | BBC News

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in the last 40 years.

One fifth of the Amazon has been lost as a result of deforestation, agricultural farming, and climate change.

Professor Michael Sweet of the University of Derby said rivers in the Amazon are also “starting to dry out."

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