By 2030 , nearly 60 % of the Amazon Rainforest could be severely damaged by deforestation .
`` Brazil : Amazon deforestation worsens , Msnbc.com , August 30 , 2008 Deforestation could wipe out or severely damage nearly 60 % of the Amazon Rainforest by 2030 , says a 2007 report from WWF.However , a January 30 , 2009 New York Times article stated , `` '' By one estimate , for every acre of rain forest cut down each year , more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics ... '' '' The new forest includes secondary forest on former farmland and so-called degraded forest . ''
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