BBC: After years of declining activity, deforestation has been rising It would be easy to think that the rainforest was saved, or at least, that the destruction of the Amazon rainforest is no longer one of the great crises facing a planet finally reaching consensus on the issue of global warming. Sting still does annual concerts, but by and large as a cause – one of the first I ever noticed as a child growing up in the 1980s – has largely disappeared from the public sphere. After …