Nobody knows exactly how much of the world's Rainforest have already been destroyed and continues to be razed each year. Data is often imprecise and subject to differing interpretations. However, it is obvious that the area of tropical Rainforest is diminishing and the rate of tropical Rainforest destruction is escalating worldwide, despite increased environmental activism and awareness.

A. Immediate Causes of Rainforest Destruction

Rainforest Destruction and The Impact on Society

Rainforests across the world face a desperate last stand against the forces that threaten to destroy them completely. Nobody knows exactly how much of the world's Rainforest have already been destroyed and continues to be razed each year. Data is often imprecise and subject to differing interpretations. However, it is obvious that the area of tropical Rainforest is diminishing and the rate of tropical Rainforest destruction

6. Washington, H., 1991, Ecosolutions: Environmental Solutions for the World and Australia, Boobook Publications, Marrickville, NSW.

The eight major reasons for this ongoing destruction of the worlds Rainforest are as follows:

7. Daly, H., 1973, Towards a Steady State Economy, Freeman and Co.

Last, but not least, and most often overlooked of the factors in the destruction of the Rainforest is the International Drug Trade. However, recent findings by NASA, in the late 1980s, based on aerial photography, showed the extensive scale of coca-growing operations in the highlands of Colombia. In 1988, Enrique Santos, Editor of El Tiempo, Colombia's largest newspaper, reported that "Cocaine has overtaken Coffee as Colombia's main export". In 1988, Colombia earned U.S. $1.5 Billion from Coffee exports, but an estimated U.S. $4 Billion from Cocaine smuggling.

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