Over 4 million hectares (9. 9 million acres) of protected tropical forest—an area double the size of Wales—have been lost to wildfires since 2001.
Source: [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-08-wildfires-destroyed-area-tropical-forest.html)
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