Future
At 2007 rates, it was considered that in two decades the Amazon Rainforest would be reduced by 40%. The rate of deforestation is now slowing, and in 2011 deforestation figures were the slowest on record, although the forest is still shrinking.
Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg announced on September 16, 2008, that the Norwegian Government would donate US $1 billion to the newly established Amazon fund. The money from this fund will go to projects aimed at slowing down the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.
Read more about this topic: Deforestation Of The Amazon Rainforest
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—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)