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As for how many trees are cut down each year, the 2005 report concludes that primary forest area (as opposed to plantations)was reduced globally by 60,000 square kilometers per year (about the size of Ireland;
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Recycling facts for folks who thrive on information To produce each week's Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down. The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
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Slashing and burning involves what its name implies, trees are cut down and the remains are burned. 11 million acres a year are cut for commercial and property industries (Entity Mission 1). Peter Heller found that McDonald s needs 800 square miles of trees to make the amount of paper they need for a year s supply...
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Yet, if you consider that each person in the United States uses 749 pounds of paper every year (adding up to a whopping 187 billion pounds per year for the entire population, Nearly 4 billion trees worldwide are cut down each year for paper, representing about 35% of all harvested trees. Fortunately, many of the trees...
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Animal Rights and Abuse question: How many trees cut down per year? At least 25000000 trees are cut down per year. = -aNnA vI<3 =
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From Ecology.com 4 billion trees per year are cut down for paper. Divide by the number of days per year to get approximately 10.
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Plus, these phone books are made from trees. A lot of trees. According to banthephonebook.org, the production of phone books cut down up to 5 million trees each year. That’s a lot of trees to make someone’s makeshift coffee table.
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The latest statistics show that rainforest land converted to cattle operations yields the land owner $60 per acre and if timber is harvested, Industrial countries would not be buying rainforest hardwoods and timber had we not cut down our own trees long ago, nor would poachers in the Amazon jungle be slaughtering...
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And, according to a not-yet-published report from the World Wildlife Fund, an estimated 7 out of every 10 trees cut down in Indonesia are from an illegal or uncontrolled harvest. Each day, Indonesia's rainforests shudder as 400-year-old giants thump to ground, A logger's lot: $22.50 per week for a job that won't last;
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It's true that a large number of trees are cut down to print newspapers (among other things), but fortunately, even more trees are planted in their place. A year ago, when demand hit an unprecedented high, recycled newsprint sold for $200 per ton &emdash; a sum almost sufficient to finance urban paper recycling programs.
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