My mom taught me something very important: Don't bite the hand that feeds you. Unfortunately, we're doing just that with the one forest that could possibly hold the medical magic to get rid of cancer. It's gotten better in recent years, but there's still so many more ways we could be protecting it.
FACT CHECK TIME!
Our fact-checkers would like to note that if Amazonia were a country, it looks like it would fall in seventh place, between Australia and India, not ninth place.
Original infographic by Premium Brazilian Decking, found via Visual.ly. For some information on the Amazon's deforestation (it's kinda getting better!), check out reporting by The Economist and The New York Times. Thumbnail image via Dominik Hofer, used under Creative Commons license.
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