- (E) While deforestation threatens ecosystems across the globe, it’s
particularly destructive to tropical rainforests. In terms of Earth’s
biodiversity, rainforests are hugely important; though they cover only 7% of
Earth, they house more than half of the world’s species. Through logging,
mining, and farming, humans destroy approximately 2% of Earth’s
rainforests every year, often damaging the soil so badly in the process that
the forest has a difficult time recovering. In recent history, deforestation has
led to approximately 36% of all extinctions, and as the habitat loss
accelerates, that number is bound to increase.
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