FORESTRY
FOREST PROTECTION
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Question
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20 inches
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20 centimetres
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20 football fields
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20 feet
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Detailed explanation-1: -The drones can plant 120 seedpods per minute. The WWF estimates we’re losing 27 football fields of forest every minute due to deforestation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some 11.1 million hectares (27.5 million acres) of tree cover was lost across the tropics in 2021, with 3.75 million hectares of that in old-growth primary forests, according to annual research by Global Forest Watch, the World Resources Institute and the University of Maryland. “That’s 10 football pitches per minute.
Detailed explanation-3: -A report has found a football pitch-sized area of rainforest was lost every six seconds last year. Vast tracts of pristine rainforest on three continents went up in smoke last year, with an area roughly the size of Switzerland cut down or burned to make way for cattle and commercial crops, researchers said Tuesday.
Detailed explanation-4: -Brazil Amazon Rainforest Lost Land The Size Of 1, 400 Football Fields In April.