Feature On Environment

         Where are our forests?

  • Forest rate is still on the decline by 1.9 percent annually.
  • Logging is the threat to all rainforests in the Third World.
  • In the Philippines, too much of the forest has already been lost because of logging.
  • 80% of the world's forest are gone.
  • In 2001, less than 8% of our country was covered by original tropical rainforest!
  • Less that 100 years ago this was still 70%!
  • The deforestation has to be stopped to save the biodiversity and the productivity of the forest as a natural resource.
  • IF NOT, WE WILL HAVE NO RAINFOREST LEFT WITHIN 15 YEARS!