Cutting down tropical forests poses a great threat to Latin America, Asia and Africa. Since ancient times, high quality wood attracted industrialists western developed countries and the countries themselves are not able to use this potential due to lack of technology. The area of the tropical forests of Equatorial Africa halved in the colonial period. Deforestation of tropical forests is 6 times faster than their regeneration and recovery. Year after year the situationworsens in the Philippines, as well as in other countries. If in the 70's forests occupy more than 60% in Thailand, then in the late 80s they have been preserved only in national parks. The main scourge of tropical forests has been that the most common and the primary fuel in mostcountries of the East is a tree. Every minute, the area of tropical forests is reduced by an amount equal to two hundred football fields. And if the pace of deforestation does not change,the beginning of the next century, developing countries can and do lose their forests.
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