The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate, impacting the climate, reducing biodiversity and threatening the survival of indigenous peoples. If deforestation continues at current rates, scientists estimate that the remaining rainforests could be gone in fifty years.
Though the threat to rainforests is a global problem, Africa has been hit particularly hard. In the last 50 years, more than 60% of West African forests have been destroyed. Today, most of Africa’s remaining forests are located in Central Africa's Congo Basin, home to several indigenous peoples (pygmies), whose existence is threatened by deforestation and poaching.
Browse this page (funded in part by The Isvara Foundation) to learn more about this issue, and find out what you can do!
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From phone calls, to petitions, to events, RAN has endless ways you can help protecting the world's rainforests.
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