No let-up in global rainforest loss as coronavirus brings new danger

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Researchers say Tropical rainforests disappeared at a rate of one football pitch every six seconds last year.

Tropical rainforests disappeared at a rate of one football pitch every six seconds last year, researchers said on Tuesday, urging countries to include forest protection in post-pandemic plans.

The loss in 2019 of 3.8 million hectares of tropical primary forest - which means intact areas of old-growth trees - was the third biggest decline since the turn of the century, according to data from Global Forest Watch .

 

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