• 20 percent of Earth’s original forests remain undisturbed
  • 13 percent of original forests in the Pacific Northwest remain undisturbed
  • 1 to 2 percent of original forests in the U.S. remain undisturbed
  • 2.47 acres of rainforest are destroyed each second, an area approximately the size of two U.S. football fields
  • 214,000 acres of rainforest are destroyed each day, an area larger than New York City
  • 78 million acres of rainforest are destroyed each year, an area larger than Poland
  • 5 to 10 percent of closed tropical forest species will go extinct per decade at current rates of tropical forest loss and disturbance
  • 27 percent of wood commercially harvested worldwide is consumed by Americans

Sources:
1 — Natural Resources Defense Council
2, 3 — World Resources Institute
4-6 — Natural Resources Defense Council
7 — World Resources Institute
8 — Natural Resources Defense Council