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The Rainforest and
It’s Medicine
Losing the
Rainforests
• At the present time, 14 to 16
million hectares of tropical
forests are being converted
each year to other land uses.
• Most of the destroyed rain
forest land is used for cattle
farming.
• Rainforests once covered
14% of the earth's land
surface .
• Now they only cover 6% of
the surface.
• One and one-half acres of
rainforest are lost every
second .
What We Are Losing
• Nearly half of the worlds
• 25% of the U.S.’s
plants animals and insects
medicines are derived from
are found in the
rainforests.
rainforests.
• More than 20% of the
• 137 plant, animal and
world’s oxygen comes
insect species are lost
from the Amazon.
everyday because of the
rainforest destruction.
The Rainforests
Medicines
• 70% of the medicines that
are anti-caner medicines are
found in the rainforests.
• Over 100 pharmaceutical
companies and several
branches of the US
government, are engaged in
plant research projects for
possible drugs and cures for
viruses, infections, cancer,
and even AIDS.
• Less than 1% of the
medicines derived from the
rain forests are tested by
scientist for used by humans.
• Scientist say that if we stop
destroying the rainforest and
just harvest the things we
need the rainforest will be
more useful.
• The rainforest is one of the
earth’s abundant resources,
one of its fastest shrinking
ones.
Things To
Know
• When trees are burned, or
cut and left to decay, the
carbon is released into the
atmosphere. This is the
second largest factor
contributing to the
greenhouse effect.
• This could eventually raise
the temperature of the
planet, break down the
ozone layer, and cause
global warming
• Nature has her own ways of
balancing out the carbon
dioxide content in the
atmosphere
This product came
from the rainforest!!
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Save the Rainforest!!!!!
By: Dominique Perrin