Nature Issues: Destroying the Rainforest

Destroying the Rainforest

Don’t destroy the rainforest!

*Destroying the rainforest has lead to the extinction of thousands of plants and animals.

* When big companies come in and burn down the rainforest, they are destroying the home of native people. They are also destroying trees and other plants and animals.

Don’t destroy the rainforest!

There are many bad global effects as well.

* Burning the trees causes more carbon dioxide to be in the air. With the loss of trees, this carbon dioxide isn’t taken in. Overall, destroying the rainforest causes a lot more carbon dioxide to be in the air.

Don’t destroy the rainforest!

* The destruction of the rainforest also makes the land dry up, which makes it absorb water really quickly. Because there is so little moisture, there is less to evaporate so there is less rainfall.

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* Palm Oil is made from the rainforest. Palm Oil is used in things such as ice cream, fried foods, chocolate bars, and even cosmetics.

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* Tropical countries are among the poorest countries on Earth, Brazil alone spends 40 percent of it’s annual income paying for it’s national debt and logging the rain forest is the main source of revenue for this.

*Rainforests currently provide sources for one-fourth of today's medicines, and 70 percent of the plants found to have anticancer properties are found only in the rainforest.

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*Expansion is another reason that the rainforest needs to go. The countries that have the rainforest want to be able to build homes and freeways but the rainforest takes up a lot of space. The solution? Cut it down and sell it for money!