NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Using the 2005 deforestation rates, it was estimated that the Amazon rainforest would be reduced by 40% in two decades. The rate of deforestation has slowed since the early 2000s, but the forest has continued to shrink every year, and analysis of satellite data shows a sharp rise in deforestation since 2018.

Detailed explanation-2: -The only statement about tropical rainforests that is false is: c. The largest number of plants and animals are found on the forest floor.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rainforests are being destroyed but the Earth is getting GREENER: Researchers reveal huge expansion in world’s trees. Thousands of square miles of rainforest is cleared in the Amazon each year to make way for farming land-a pattern of destruction that takes place all around the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the last fifty years, Brazil’s Amazon has lost about a fifth of its forest cover-almost 300, 000 square miles. This includes at least 5, 110 square miles lost in 2021. Deforestation is second only to the burning of fossil fuels as a source of greenhouse gas emissions [PDF] that cause climate change.