Preliminary+Research

Rainforests are being cut down. **What I need to find out about my topic:** Why and what is being done to stop it. **Search terms I can use to find information about my topic:** Deforestation, Problems with deforestation **Information I found today (at least 5 points)** **-**In [|Nigeria] 81% of its original forest cover is now permanently lost.
 * What I know about my topic:**
 * -**The tropical rainforests of [|Brazil] are less by 90-95%.
 * -**The forests of Central America are down by two-thirds lowlands, since 1950.
 * -**Countries like [|India], [|Mexico], [|Philippines], Thailand, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, [|China], [|Sri Lanka], the Congo and Ghana have lost much more than 50% of their rainforest cover.
 * -**Harvesting of forest cover has left [|Afghanistan] with a little over 25% forests throughout the country