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Forests cover over ___% of the world’s surface.
31
_____ is the physical process of cutting down trees and processing them into timber for the worldwide production of wood and paper.
Logging
The four main commodities of ____, ____, ____, and ____, are the main drivers of modern-day deforestation.
soy, beef, palm oil, and wood products
Of the 1.3 billion people worldwide who live on £1.02 a day, __% depend on forests for work and income.
90
When talking about deforestation, you have to think of two sides of the equation. On the one hand there are ____ countries, who have large forested areas and are clearing them for the production of soy, palm oil, and beef.
producer
From 1990 to 2016, the World Bank documented the loss of over 502,000 square miles, 1.3 million square kilometers of forest - approximately ___ times the size of the United Kingdom.
five
Similar to the slash and burn agricultural technique, _____ involves clearing land for cattle and exploiting it until it has been fully depleted of any vegetation.
Overgrazing
The ______ was amongst the main producers of beef, at 16% of global production, followed by Brazil, China, Argentina and Australia.
United States
__% of the world’s land-based species live inside forests - and when their habitat is destroyed, they lose their homes.
80
China and India are the largest importers of soy, palm oil, and beef in the world. This makes them ___ countries.
consumer
___ is the clearing, destroying, or otherwise removal of trees through deliberate, natural or accidental means.
Deforestation
Almost 60% of cleared tropical forests are for the use of agricultural settlement. This is when farmers clear land to _____.
grow crops
Beef cattle are responsible for ___% of the world’s CO2 emissions, and usually require large amounts of water for production.
39
The Awa protect their land, but are constantly met with gunmen, called ______, who are sent by illegal settlers to hunt down and kill tribe members who have stood in their way.
pistoleros
Combined, the Chinese and Indian demand along with Brazilian and Indonesian domestic consumption accounts for over __% of the estimated 7.6 million hectares of forest that are lost annually.
11
In the past two years, the world has lost land the size of 40 ______ every minute of every day.
football fields
A majority of the logging process occurs illegally, where trees are cut in indigenous lands, and in most cases, ______ have done little to nothing to prevent such activities.
governments
Brazil is the second largest producer of ___ in the world, holding 31% of global production in 2018.
soy
In the last 16 years, 100,000 have been killed as a result of palm oil cultivation in Indonesia.
Indonesian Orangutans
_____’s economy continues to suffer, and Bolsonaro believes the best way to save it is through selling products like beef and soy at high prices to main consumers and producing them at low costs through strategies like slash and burn agriculture.
Brazil's
Forests provide jobs to over ____ million people across the globe
13.2
_____ can be both wild and man-made, but are one of the leading factors of deforestation.
Fires
These biscuits owned by Mondelez contain palm oil, and the high demand for them contributes to deforestation.
Oreos
Low wages and constant abuse of the land then leads to ______, the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of nutritious food.
food insecurity
What is an example of a policy the Indonesian government implemented to reduce their deforestation statistics?
strengthened law enforcement to prevent forest fires and land clearing