Amazon Rainforest Case study

Question 1

what % of the world’s rainforest does the Amazon hold

Answer 1

60%

Question 2

in the last 50 years, how much of the forest has been destroyed

Answer 2

20%

Question 3

how long does it take to clear an area of forest the size of a football pitch

Answer 3

1 minute

Question 4

what area does the forest cover

Answer 4

20 times the size of Britain

Question 5

how much of the forest is in Brazil

Answer 5

2/3

Question 6

how much of the oxygen in the atmosphere does it produce

Answer 6

20%

Question 7

how much forest is vanishing in a day

Answer 7

2000 football pitches worth

Question 8

what is the biggest single reason for forests being cleared

Answer 8

cattle farming

Question 9

in the 1980s what was the recorded figure for deforestation

Answer 9

77,000 square miles twice the size of Belgium/the size of New York/ size of California disappears

Question 10

what fraction of the oxygen it produces do we breath

Answer 10

1/5

Question 11

what % of world’s freshwater does it hold

Answer 11

20%

Question 12

what % of species of life on Earth

Answer 12

50%

Question 13

in 2006 what was the annual destruction rate

Answer 13

dropped by 70%

Question 14

what happened in 2019

Answer 14

consumed by fire, more and more trees are cut down, highest rate of deforestation in a decade

Question 15

how many square kilometres were filled with natural resources

Answer 15

5 million

Question 16

what was created in order to attract people out of cities to cultivate the land

Answer 16

Trans Amazonian Highway

Question 17

between 1978-88 what was the average destruction

Answer 17

20,000 sq/km a year

Question 18

what was the name for this area

Answer 18

The Arc of Deforestation

Question 19

by 2012 how much of the Amazon was under some form of protection

Answer 19

47%

Question 20

what % could land owners clear of their private land

Answer 20

20%

Question 21

what % of seats did the Ruralistas have in congress in 2003

Answer 21

17%

Question 22

what % of seats did the Ruralistas have in 2012

Answer 22

30%

Question 23

what % did the Ruralistas have in 2016

Answer 23

44%

Question 24

how many fires were burning in the Amazon in August 2019

Answer 24

30,000

Question 25

how many more fires were burning in 2019 than there were in 2018

Answer 25

3x the amount

Question 26

at what point is it estimated the rainforest will start to collapse

Answer 26

if 20-25% of it is deforested