rainforests
The rainforests are very important to the world for many reasons, most of them being very simple. One major reason is that the plants in the forest turn carbon dioxide into clean air, which helps us fight pollution. Also, by absorbing carbon dioxide, the rainforests help deter the greenhouse effect. The trees of the rainforest store carbon dioxide in their roots, stems, branches, and leaves. The plants and animals of the rainforest also provide us with food, fuel wood, shelter, jobs, and medicines. "Image losing the potential cure for cancer or AIDS that might have been found in an undiscovered plant from the rainforest." (Tropical Rainforest Coalition, 1996) "The vine Aucistrocladus koropensis may be effective in treating AIDS; we can only guess what other beneficial plants may be destroyed before we find them." (Allo, 1996) It is repeated often that the rainforest contains important plants that will cure the worst diseases of today. Although there is scientific proof of its value, the rainforest continues to disappear. "In ever sense, a standing rainforest supplies more economic wealth then if it were cleared... ...yet deforestation continues at an alarming rate." (Tropical Rainforest Coalition
of the communities in which we operate. This issue of Rainforests destruction and mass species extinctions is the # 1 issue facing humanity. Once again let us remind you, there is nothing more important than the issue of these mass extinctions. Trees from the rainforest are used for building houses, making furniture, and providing pulp for paper products, such as newspapers and magazines. Because it is very profitable, ranchers continue to clear rainforest land so they can raise and sell more cattle. We are but a strand in the fabric of life, all intricately interdependent on one another. This destruction of virgin Rainforests land area causes somewhere between 93 and 1609 Rainforests species extinctions per day. This land does not cost them very much, so they can sell cattle at low prices. The Amazon rainforest still remains as it was years ago, with less destruction occurring than in many other forests, because it is very large and remote. In this, the richest environment for life, we are destroying a land area which is equivalent to the size of the city of Error! Bookmark not defined. Lucky for us we realized this in time, before we violate nature's inherent limits. If we fell, level or slash and burn 90% of the Virgin Rainforest Area, only 50% of Rainforests Species will go extinct. Our reckless expansion into wilderness areas is causing countless atrocities to all life sustaining ecosystems. Many of those species that have not yet been discovered may very likely cure cancer, AIDS, and many of the other diseases and viruses of today.
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