World Rainforest Day on 22 June is a collaborative effort to raise awareness and encourage action to protect the world’s rainforests. Rainforests cover less than 3% of the Earth’s area but are essential to life on Earth and more than 25% of the medicines we use originate from rainforest plants. Source: Timberbiz
Rainforests can even influence global weather and are home to half of the world’s terrestrial species.
World Rainforest Day is an opportunity to celebrate this vital natural resource each year and take action to preserve it.
According to the organisers of the day every minute, we lose 40 football fields of rainforests, which threatens our biodiversity and imperils our planet’s health. Deforestation causes 15% of global carbon dioxide emissions that accelerate climate change, more than from all cars in the US and China combined. Natural climate solutions like protecting and restoring forests, however, could reverse global emissions by a third.
World Rainforest Day celebrates this precious natural resource and encourages action to preserve it.
For more information https://www.worldrainforestday.org/
