There are approximately 400 million trees currently growing in the Amazon rainforest which covers approximately 5.5 million square kilometres the rainforest is being cleared at a rate of 20000 Square kilometres per year to make way for new Farmland in to harvest wood for building supplies before this year 250,000 Square km had already been cleared preservation Consortium is trying to mitigate the loss of rainforest by plant ing new trees they have already planted three thousand square kilometers of trees and plant to plant a hundred square kilometers each year. use an online graphing tool to graph equations .