No country in the world is tearing down its untouched forests faster than Canada, according to findings released by Global Forest Watch.

Canada was responsible for more than 21 percent of the world's damaged or destroyed virgin forests– forests that were previously untouched by loggers or developers– between 2000 and 2013, the report found. Russia landed just behind Canada, accounting for 20 percent, Global Forest Watch's report added. It's fair to note that the two countries, along with Brazil, contain 65 percent of the world's remaining untouched forest land.

Since 2000, some 257 million acres of Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL) have been affected by deforestation, an area three times the size of Germany, according to the report. That breaks down to nearly 50,000 acres of land being affected every day for 13 years.

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Using detailed satellite imagery, researchers followed each of the world's IFL'sfrom 2000 until 2013 to see how each was affected by deforestation, according to Huffington Post Canada.

"What is lost is the intactness ... This is a process which results in biodiversity loss–particularly, far-ranging species will no longer be able to survive," said Christoph Thies, senior forest campaigner for Greenpeace International, in a CBC report.

Canada, Russia, Brazil, the United States and Bolivia cut down the biggest area of forest since 2000 of all the world's countries, according to the Forest Watch report.

This project was compiled by World Resources Institute, Greenpeace and several other groups, according to Think Progress. Below is an interactive map showing the areas that have been degraded (in pink), as well as reforested areas (in blue). As you can see, the pink dots far outnumber the blue.

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