Translations: Gefährdete Tropenhölzer nein danke/6/en

Around 50 - 70% of all species in the world live in tropical primary forests (primeval forests). Protecting them makes the greatest contribution to maintaining biodiversity worldwide. In forests, around 7,826 species are threatened with extinction, 93% of them in tropical primeval forests, mainly due to changes in land use and overexploitation. In the case of plantation wood, it should be borne in mind that primary forests were cleared for many plantations beforehand. Brazil alone loses an area of 2,194,000 football fields in primary forest every year! Almost as many species are endangered by transport as by overexploitation. Shipping traffic on the main trade routes plays a very negative role in this.