The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.
位處赤道附近一個狹窄區域的熱帶雨林，正在不斷地遭受人類的破壞，預計在二零零零年之前，該區域將會有五分之四的熱帶雨林從地球上消失。