Annual Toy Drive Kicks Off Throughout County The Boone County Toy Drive is now accepting donations of new toys. Donations can be dropped of at Lebanon Fire Department Station 11 or the...
The Amazon rainforest â which defined biogeographically includes the rainforest in the Guianas, which technically are outside the Amazon Basin â covers 7.8-8.2 million sq km (3-3.2 million sq mi), of which just over 80 percent is forested. The Amazon River is by far the world's largest river by volume.
The main causes of deforestation of the Amazon rainforest are human settlement and development of the land. In the nine years from 1991 to 2000, the area of Amazon rainforest cleared rose from 415,000 to 587,000 km 2 (160,000 to 227,000 sq mi), comparable to the total land area of Spain, Madagascar or Manitoba.urthermore, âas a result of deforestation, only 2.4 million square miles remainâ of the original 6 million acres that once covered the earth (Rainforest Concern). Cattle ranching is responsible for 91% of the destruction in tropical rainforests, with over 136 million acres of land cleared for cattle grazing (PETA).