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Farmers have traditionally been seen as an enemy of the endangered rainforest as countless stories detail cases where trees have been burnt or cut down to make room for more profitable crops. This image may soon be a thing of the past however, following the release of new research, which suggests almost half of farmland around the world has at least ten per cent tree cover.

Fruit juice producer Tropicana has joined Cool Earth on a scheme to help save the rainforest, 100 square feet at a time.

Amazonian tribesmen who have defended the land and rainforests that feed their people and nurture their culture in battles and in courtrooms will join thousands of delegates seeking to find a global solution to climate change later this year.

Few would disagree that efforts to protect the world's rainforests from deforestation should be a global priority.

Rainforest credits should be adopted as a means to reduce global carbon emissions – not just as a way of protecting carbon dioxide sinks but also in order to combat emissions directly caused by deforestation.