About thirteen million hectares of forest were cut down or lost through natural causes each year in the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

The cow finished drinking, and as the nine-year-old child hurried through the forest to the home she loved, she thought again about the noisy town where her parents still lived.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

The UN estimates Africa is losing four million hectares of forest a year - twice the global average.

BBC: Atlas shows vanishing landscape

Simpson, who arrived at Wake Forest the year Haas graduated, figures Haas will have to make a few mistakes for anyone to make a big move.

NPR: Haas Shoots 64 To Take Lead At Riviera

Wildfires ravaged 7 million acres of forest last year.

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