Statistics
Worldwide
we lose 150 acres per minute.
Internationally
we lose 3.36 million hectares (8.3 million acres) a year — an area larger than Belgium
United States
175 acres lost per hour to development
United States
one acres lost per minute to development
In the U.S
one acre is equal to 1.32 acres a little more than the size of a football field
In 2019
the world lost an entire soccer field worth of primary rainforest every six seconds
200,000 acres
of rainforest are burned each year for industrial agriculture i.e. cattle operations
30,000 acres
of land ownership are lost per year in the Black community
