This is alarming as recent data indicates that these huge forests are land-dwelling carbon sinks and could help slow global climate change. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that “eighteen million acres of forests have been destroyed worldwide”; and NASA predicts “that if current rates of deforestation are not reduced, rainforests could be completely eradicated within a century.” Nations with substantial deforestation include Brazil, Indonesia, Thailand, Africa (including the Democratic Republic of Congo), and remote areas of Eastern Europe. Indonesia, the country with the most deforestation in the last century, has lost approximately forty million acres of indigenous people