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Lines of Inquiry 2 WWF The UN has named 2011 the International Year of Forests, and we're right behind the whole idea. From the Amazon to your local woodland, it’s all about celebrating the importance of trees – and how everyone can do more to protect them.

We find the idea of a countryside without trees inconceivable and fight hard to protect what little remains in the UK. But around the world, forests are still being cut down twice as fast as they’re replanted.

Now here’s a frightening thought. Since 1950, the world has lost half of all its natural forest. That’s half of all global forests in less than a human lifetime.

And that’s not the whole story. We’re losing quality as well as quantity. When rich, diverse forest is destroyed it’s often replaced with regimented and biologically drab plantations. We’re not simply chopping trees, we’re hacking away at the richness of life.

**Why we need to save forests** – and how //**you can help**// Trees are vital as well as beautiful. **//Tropical forests// may be //home// to three quarters of //all plant and animal species on Earth. //** And well over a billion ** people rely on the resources that forests provide. **

__Humans are responsible for cutting down the trees and make more chances of the world getting more greenhouse gases, so deforestion ruined the world and you cannot win global warming__

//**As 2011 progresses we’ll be reminding you why forests need protection more than ever – particularly in places like Brazil, Indonesia and the Congo Basin – and how you can help us tackle the danger of unsustainable deforestation.**//
 * __//WWF// is working on //forest conservation//, and it needs //your help.//__**

//**Forests, woodlands, trees – call them what you will – are in trouble and they need our help. So, in 2011, let’s work together to make a difference – to make sure we keep our forests standing. That really would be something to celebrate.**//