With 60% of the Amazon forest lying within its boundaries, and the primary Mercosur trade p artner with Europe, Brazil was one of the first signatories of both the CBD and the Paris Declaration But the current rate of Amazonian deforestation, and the country's infringement of a longstanding pro Regardless of the environmental benefits the Amazon rainforest has, we have lost around 17 percent of its forest in the last 50 years and the rates continue to grow Many scientists believe that the Amazon rainforest will be completely gone in the next hundred years 22 Amazon deforestation stats reveal that in the last 50 years, 17% of the Amazon has been deforested (Futurism) This may not seem like a large percentage, but only 3% more, and the Amazon rainforest will be past the point of salvation However, this is not only the case with the Amazon rainforest
Amazon Destruction
