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Think saving the rainforests is paramount? Think again:

These new “secondary” forests are emerging in Latin America, Asia and other tropical regions at such a fast pace that the trend has set off a serious debate about whether saving primeval rain forest — an iconic environmental cause — may be less urgent than once thought. By one estimate, for every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics on land that was once farmed, logged or ravaged by natural disaster."

A fifty to one ratio? Sounds like the rainforests are doing quite well without environmentalist intervention.

(Via: American Digest)