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    The tallest tree in the world is a coast redwood called Hyperion in California that measures 115.61m tall, while the largest tree by volume is a giant sequoia named General Sherman with a 10m wide trunk containing 1486 cubic meters of wood. More than 25% of medicines originate from rainforest plants, but only 1% have been studied, and deforestation destroys a potential cure every day as an area the size of a football pitch is lost every second. Forests provide over 75% of the world's freshwater and are home to over 300 million people, while over 300,000 acres of forests burned in Indonesia and many now suffer from resulting smog diseases, and 1.8 million hect

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    The tallest tree in the world is a coast redwood called Hyperion in California that measures 115.61m tall, while the largest tree by volume is a giant sequoia named General Sherman with a 10m wide trunk containing 1486 cubic meters of wood. More than 25% of medicines originate from rainforest plants, but only 1% have been studied, and deforestation destroys a potential cure every day as an area the size of a football pitch is lost every second. Forests provide over 75% of the world's freshwater and are home to over 300 million people, while over 300,000 acres of forests burned in Indonesia and many now suffer from resulting smog diseases, and 1.8 million hect

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    10 Rare Facts of Forests

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    The tallest tree in the world is a coast redwood called Hyperion in California that measures 115.61m tall, while the largest tree by volume is a giant sequoia named General Sherman with a 10m wide trunk containing 1486 cubic meters of wood. More than 25% of medicines originate from rainforest plants, but only 1% have been studied, and deforestation destroys a potential cure every day as an area the size of a football pitch is lost every second. Forests provide over 75% of the world's freshwater and are home to over 300 million people, while over 300,000 acres of forests burned in Indonesia and many now suffer from resulting smog diseases, and 1.8 million hect

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    The tallest tree in the world is called Hyperion

    It's a coast redwood from California that measures an incredible 115.61m tall. The largest tree in the
    world by volume is a giant sequoia called General Sherman which has a trunk 10m round and
    contains an estimated 1486 cubic metres of wood.

    More than 25% of the medicines we use originate in rainforest plants


    Yet only 1% of rainforest plants have been studied for medicinal properties. Every second an area of
    rainforest the size of a football pitch is cut down meaning every day we might lose a potential cure.

    More than 75% of the worlds usable freshwater comes from forested areas.
    More than 300 million people around the world live in forests.
    More than 300,000 acres of forests were burnt in Indonesias East Kalimantan.
    Many are now suffering from smog related diseases for that.
    Over 1.8 million hectors of dry deciduous forest disappear every year.

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