FAST FACTS:
 

• Scientific experts claim that we are losing over 137 species of plants, animals, and insects every
  single day because of rainforest deforestation

• Per year, it is estimated that we lose 20,000 to 100,000 species

• An area the size of a football field is being destroyed every second

• If deforestation continues at current rates, scientists estimate nearly 80 to 90 percent of tropical
  rainforest ecosystems will be destroyed by the year 2020