Habitat specialist species and endangered wildlife are getting pushed to extinction.
At this devastating pace, deforestation threatens to completely dismantle intricate ecosystems that took millennia to develop. Habitat specialist species and endangered wildlife are getting pushed to extinction. Soil erosion and altered climate patterns bring drought, flooding, and wildfires to the remaining forest fragments. Tropical biodiversity hotspots could be reduced to isolated islands in a sea of cattle ranches and soybean fields within our lifetimes.