[vijayshankarv]

It does seem like quite a lot of the original area has been lost

> Five hundred years ago, the Atlantic Forest of Brazil covered approximately 330 million acres (about twice the size of Texas), but today more than 85% of this forest has been cleared and what remains is highly fragmented.

https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/places...

[cassianoleal]

Yes, that's right. I didn't mean to downplay how badly hurt the forest is. My point is that the author makes it seem like the one small patch he's been to is more or less all that's left, whereas it's really not.

One of the problems this biome faces is that the most populated areas of Brazil are along the same coastal region as the forest. That means cities take up its space. There's even pretty large patches of Atlantic Forest inside cities (like Floresta da Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro), and there are whole regions of relatively untouched forest.

I've been to a few of those. I've bathed in waterfalls, climbed rocks and hiked trails.

It does need to be taken really good care, a lot more than it has. It's still there though, and is pretty large.