text: And this number also seems to be good for the National Wildlife Federation, which in a pamphlet co-produced with the World Wildlife Fund called "Tropical Forests: A Resource for the Future" said "Tropical deforestation is occurring at the rate of more than 50 acres per minute. An area the size of New York state is destroyed each year. This rate is high enough to ensure that many countries will be entirely stripped of primary forest within the next decade."