History of Rainforest Deforestation The following figures show the historical dateline of deforestation around the world 50,000 years ago - Aborigines began periodic burning directly altering natural forests Over 23,000 years ago - 200,000km/sq converted to treeless plains 10,000 BC - Intensified cropping led to permanent villages in North America 8,000 years ago - 70% of land in India was forest, the figure now stands at around 8% 8,000 - 3,000 BC - Successive burning cleared the British Isles 3,000 BC - People and livestock increased to the extent that forests became perman...

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Now there are about two million, even though the general U.S. population has doubled. ... Between 1987 and 1992, America lost an average of 32,000 farms per year and most of those were family farms. ...

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