RAiNfOResTS

What Makes a Rainforest A rainforest is made of thousands plants and animals

Locations of rainforests across the world… Most of the rainforests are located around the equator…

Why do we need rainforests… Why Do We Need Rainforests 1. The plants in the rainforests generate a lot of the Earth’s oxygen 2. The plants in the rainforest remove carbon dioxide and store it in their roots, stems, leaves and branches 3. By turning CO2 into clean air, rainforests help fight pollution 4. Destroying the rainforests will increase global warming because more CO2 will be released into the atmosphere. 5. Rainforests also absorb other chemical such as nitrous oxide. 6. Rainforests help to maintain a balanced climate. 7. The rainforests clean and recycle water 8. Rainforests cause large amounts of water to evaporate into the atmosphere 9. More than two thirds of the world’s plant species live in tropical rainforests. 10. The rainforest is home to many unique plants and animals not found anywhere else 11. Many species have or will become extinct if the rainforests are destroyed. 12. The plants of the rainforest are used in medicines that fight may diseases and illnesses like cancer, leukemia and heart disease. 13. The rainforests contain important plants that may cure more diseases in the future. 14. Less than 1% of the world's tropical forest plants have been tested for pharmaceutical properties, yet at least 25% of all modern drugs came originally from rainforests 15. The rainforest is home to 30 million species. Without the rainforest these plants and animals would die. 16. One river in the Brazilian rainforest was found to contain more species of fish than all the rivers in the USA 17. Industry uses many products from the rainforest such as rubber 18. A lot of the food we eat originally comes from the rainforest e.g. bananas, pineapples, peanuts 19. Tropical rainforests cover about 7% of the Earth’s surface and they are very important to the Earth’s ecosystem ,000,000 tribal people live in the rain forests. These people depend on the rainforests for their food and shelter. 21. Rainforests act as a kind of ‘heat pump, redistributing solar energy. 22. Rainforests warm temperate zones and cool the tropics by redistributing solar energy. 23. The rainforests are wonderful places to visit MR RUDY I DIDN’T TYPE THIS!

Why are rainforests in danger… The more human population the more room is needed… so rainforests are bulldozed or burnt down for homes, roads, farms, etc…

Why are plants and animals in danger… Because they are losing food and there homes are being DESTROYED!

Alternate locations/plans for land developers… New conservations policy MUST BE built on the principle of sustainable use and development of rainforests

We need to protect the rainforests! I am pretty sure you wouldn’t want people coming to your home and burning it down… so… how do u think the animals feel? And Theres Medicine that comes from the rainforests… For instance… Malaria(the bark from the cinchona tree produces quinine) Muscle relaxant during surgery(curare, a vine extract used by indigenous peoples to poison arrows and darts) Strokes, Seizure, Depression and Alzheimer’s disease(secretions of an Amazonian frog called Phyllomedusa bicolor) And the Animals that are in the rainforests are immportant to us all!...

Poison Arrow Frog n Dart Frog Cinchona Tree Phyllomedusa

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