The news isn't all bad. Apparently most of the world is increasing it's number of trees - not decreasing! The exceptions being the constant offenders Brazil and Indonesia...
A new survey has found the cover and density of the world's forests is increasing in some countries.
The survey by the American National Academy of Sciences has found deforestation has either stabilised or reversed in Vietnam, Spain and India.
The study also found rich nations are switching to re-forestation because they can afford to create wilderness reserves.
Researchers say re-forestation has increased in almost half of the world's 50 most heavily-forested nations, including China and the United States.
But forests are still disappearing in Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria and the Philippines.
One of the scientists who wrote the report, Jesse Ausubel, says the situation would be even better if two countries in particular improved their performance.
"The total loss of world forests since about 1990 was only about 2 per cent and if either Indonesia or Brazil had no loss then the global balance would be even," he said.
"The rest of the world since 1990 has actually increased forest cover by about 2 per cent."
Well, I do like trees and water guys. Now smart foresters all reforest--it is good for the environment and is good business. They can intelligently harvest trees and have a continual supply of trees on the rise. That Amazon rape is selfish, hard on the ecology and is economicaly short sighted and stupid. I should get down there and start a Johnny Appleseed type of seeding and sapling planting program-or rather they should. 
