Greenpeace USA Ancient forests already destroyed.
Ancient forests are shelter to most of the world's biodiversity .
These forests stablize our climate, protect our soil, air, and water, and nuture the Earth's fisheries. Now, destructive commercial logging practices are threatening the very existence of these forests. While trees may be a renewable resource, ancient forests are not. More than 80 percent of the world's ancient forests have already been destroyed due to logging. Unless the expansion of industrial logging is stopped, all remaining ancient forest areas will be fragmented or lost within a few short decades.