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80 percent of our forests are already gone.
Half of our oxygen comes from trees.
Forests contain 80 percent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity.
1 in 4 medicines stem from rainforest ingredients.
1 tree removes 48 pounds of carbon per year.
About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute.
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