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World Rainforest Day 2021: From Amazon to Atlantic, a look at Rainforests Around the World
News 18Despite their significance, deforestation in the world’s tropical forests has been continuously high since the 1980s, owing to growing human demand for food, fibre and fuel, as well as a failure to understand the significance of rainforests as healthy and productive ecosystems. In honour of World Rainforest Day 2021, which was founded in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership, here is a glance at the world’s largest surviving tropical rainforests. The Amazon rainforest is more than three times larger than the Congo Basin, the world’s second-biggest rainforest, in terms of primary forest extent. Australiasian Realm: The Australiasian rainforest contains tropical forests in New Guinea and north-eastern Australia, and also isolated islands that were linked when sea levels plummeted in the last ice age. Costa Rica’s forests are perhaps the most well-known in the area, due to the country’s world-renowned ecotourism sector, although the nation ranks sixth in terms of primary forest cover.
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World Environment Day 2021: A Look at some of the World's Largest Forests and How They're Rapidly Vanishing
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