? The old-growth forests of the Pacific Coast once stretched for 2,000 miles from the redwoods of Big Sur California to the Sitka Spruce of Alaska. Only four percent remain (figures vary).
? Old-growth redwoods capture three to ten times more carbon than most forests on earth (Save the Redwoods).
Save the Redwoods
? Eighty percent of land animals depend on forests to live (National Geographic).
National Geographic
? “Stopping deforestation and restoring damaged forests could provide up to thirty percent of the climate solution” (IPCC, Yale Environment 360).
Yale Environment 360
? In the last hundred years, we lost as much forest as was lost over the last 9,000 years (Ritchie).
? Primary rainforest destruction increased by twelve percent from 2019 to 2020, equivalent to a soccer fie
