SCIENCE
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Question
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1.2 ha
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29 ha
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73 ha
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178 ha
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1, 752 ha
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Detailed explanation-1: -Therefore, approximately 73 hectares of the Amazon forest is cleared every hour in year 2011.
Detailed explanation-2: -World’s Largest Rainforest The Amazon is larger than the next two rainforests (the Congo Basin and the tropical areas of Indonesia. As of 2020, the Amazon had 526 million hectares of primary forest.
Detailed explanation-3: -This equates to more than 85 million hectares (211 million acres), an area about one-tenth the size of the United States or China. Map showing total forest loss in the original Amazon forest biome. An estimated 13.2% has been lost due to deforestation and other causes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Since the 1970s around 18 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed. Since 1998 an average of 10, 000 acres of rainforest cover has been destroyed every day. In 2021 alone 4.8 million acres of the Amazon rainforest were lost.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Amazon rainforest stretches across 5.5 million square kilometers/2.1 million square miles – an area far more extensive than the EU and more than half of the US.