Rainforests provide invaluable ecosystem services supporting climate management, biodiversity, and rural livelihoods. But, for all their powers, rainforests are fragile and significant damage is done to them every day.
In this publication, published on Earth Overshoot Day—the day on which humanity’s resource consumption for the current year exceeds our planet’s annual ability to regenerate those resources—we focus on four key concerns: deforestation, climate change, poaching and illegal trade, and mining and oil extraction.
