Amazon has lost 240 million acres of primary forest, about 15% of its original cover, a new study says; 32.2 million acres disappeared between 2022 and 2025, threatening vital rain-carrying pathways
- Imagine Texas and California pushed together into one patch of land.
- Now picture all of it cut down, burned or otherwise gone.
- That is roughly the amount of original primary forest the Amazon has lost, according to a new report from Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP).
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- Imagine Texas and California pushed together into one patch of land.
- Now picture all of it cut down, burned or otherwise gone.
- That is roughly the amount of original primary forest the Amazon has lost, according to a new report from Amazon Conservation’s Monitoring of the Andes Amazon Program (MAAP).
Sources: Times of India