article_snippet: Thousands of square miles of rainforest is cleared in the Amazon  each year to make way for farming land - a pattern of destruction that takes place all around the world.
article_snippet: Thousands of square miles of rainforest is cleared in the Amazon   (pictured) each year to make way for farming land - a pattern of destruction that takes place all around the world - but despite this, the planet has got greener in the past decade, with the total amount of plant coverage increasing overall .
article_snippet: Declines is rainforest vegetation has been particularly dramatic in the Amazon and Indonesia's provinces of Kalimantan and Sumatra.
article_snippet: Over 2,300 square miles (6,000 square km) of Amazon Rainforest was destroyed in the 12 months to the end of July 2013, according to statistics from the Brazilian government.
article_snippet: This means that deforestation was up by 29 per cent and the most activity was seen in the states of Para and Mato, where more than 390 square miles (1,000 square km) of land was cleared in each location, the BBC reported.
article_snippet: Declines is rainforest vegetation has been particularly dramatic in the Amazon and Indonesia's provinces of Kalimantan and Sumatra.
article_snippet: The report said that only half of rainforest loss has been offset by growth in other types of forests.