Protect the Amazon- Stop criminal timber imports

The Amazon rainforest is one of the biologically richest areas in the world containing more than one-third of the world's remaining ancient forests and supporting up to 50% of the planet's land-based animal and plant species. The Amazon contains more than 2.5 million species of insects, more than 300 species of mammals, 2000 species of fish and more than 60,000 species of plants.

Nearly 80% of world's ancient forests have been destroyed or degraded. The remainder is disappearing at the rate of 10 million hectares every year an area the size of a football pitch every two seconds. In the Amazon an area the size of France has already been destroyed (about 1/7 th of the total) and an area half the size of Belgium disappears annually.