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Gorillas live in the African rainforest, Earth’s second largest.

could be gone. That’s like 75,000 football fields. With them, it’s estimated they take more than 100 species of plants, animals, and insects. And that’s just in one day! Tropical rainforests cover about 6 percent of the Earth’s land surface (2 percent of its total surface). They’re clus- tered around the Equator, which is threaded through the middle like a string holding it all together. Scientists esti-

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