Rainforrest Issues

I believe it is our duty as a people of this Earth to get involved and save this precious land. Commercial logging is the leading factor in rainforest destruction, both through extraction & road building. This number decreases each year by roughly 1,000 square miles due to construction and the resources being used for profit. Of all the forests in the world, the rainforests provide the most life for both the living organisms that are in the forests themselves and those, which are surrounding it on the rest of the planet. Some areas of tropical rainforest have escaped “glaciation” for 65 million years. Although In 1980, the estimated amount of rain forests in the world was 40,000 square miles. Somewhere between half and 90% of all species on Earth are found in rainforests. It took the Earth billions of years to arrive at the state of equilibrium that existed only a few thousand years ago. Half of the total loss of rainforests has occurred in this century. Before human intervention, the rainforests covered 15% of the Earth's land area. Today rainforests cover less than 7% of the Earth's land area. This has allowed these forests to develop an array of life unmatched in any other ecosystem on Earth. tor that covers all the area from Mexico, the northern area of South America, Africa, India, stretching out to Indonesia, and the northern tip of Australia all the way to New Guinea. Is economic development of greater value than the natural resources of the rainforest? The rainforest does provide many resources like timber, for cattle and agriculture, and for subsistence cropping by rainforest inhabitants.