The Amazon rainforest has lost an area the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in the last 40 years.
One fifth of the Amazon has been lost as a result of deforestation, agricultural farming, and climate change.
Professor Michael Sweet of the University of Derby said rivers in the Amazon are also “starting to dry out."
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