Did you know?

• Rainforests once covered 14% of earth’s land surface; now they cover a mere 6%.
• Around 150,000 square kilometres of tropical rainforest, equivalent to the size of England and Wales, is destroyed every year.
• 45% of the world’s rainforest can be found in South America; 30% in Africa; 16% in South East Asia; and 9% in Australasia.
• A single hectare of rainforest may contain 200 tree species.
• An estimated 1 in 4 of all purchases from pharmacies contain an active ingredient derived from a tropical forest species.
• Rainforests worldwide are home to an estimated 50 million indigenous forest people.