Marc Morano

About the author: Marc Morano is a correspondent for American Investigator, a television newsmagazine, and co-producer with Kent Washburn of Amazon Rainforest: Clear-Cutting the Myths.

There has been talk for years about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest. However, the Amazon is one of the most intact and least-endangered forests on the planet. The claim that the rain forests are being destroyed "at a rate of 20 football fields a minute" is false. In addition, claims that the Amazon serves as the "lungs of the earth" and that over "450 species" are destroyed every day in the Amazon are exaggerated. The Amazon is not in as much danger as some environmentalists think. More than 87 percent of the forest is still intact. Instead, what is in...