Rainforests cover less than 2% of the Earth’s total surface area, yet they are home to 50% of the Earth’s plants and animals.

Rainforests once covered 14% of the Earth’s land surface.

Experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.

The United Nations estimates that over 100,000 acres of rainforests are destroyed each day.

34% of the world’s intact forests are in Latin America.

11 tropical Latin American countries have already destroyed all of their intact forests.  They are:  The Bahamas, Dominica, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica,

Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Lucia and Uruguay. 

There are two types of rainforest; temperate and tropical rainforests

The world has lost 50% or 75 million acres of it’s temperate rainforest.

Temperate forests are the most endangered forest type on the planet. 

British Columbia is home to a quarter of the world’s remaining ancient temperate rainforests

90% of the logging in British Columbia occurs in endangered forests

Over 40% of the trees cut in British Columbia are used to produce paper.

The oldest living thing on Earth is a bristolcone pine tree in Nevada.  It is 4,700 years old!