Rainforest

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Causes of rainforest destruction:
 * Logging
 * Deforestation
 * Minning and industry
 * Large dams
 * Fuelwood
 * Tourism

Horrifing facts:
 * 1) Afriac's Congo Basin, the 2nd largest rainforest in the world, includes 10 countries it is also being destroyed by minners, farmers, and loggers. This 190-million-hectare rainforest is home to 400 speices. This rainforest is shrinking 1.6 million hectare a year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 * 2) Once rainforests covered 14% of the earth's surface now they only cover a mere(small) 6%!!!!!!!!!
 * 3) One and a half of the acres of rainforests are desroyed every second!!!!!!!!!
 * 4) The Amazon Basin holds one fifth of the world's fresh water!!!!!!!!
 * 5) The U.S National Institute has found 3,000 plants that are active against cancer cells. 70% of these plants are found in the rainforest!!!!!!!!
 * 6) Due to rainforest destruction in a quater of a century it has been predicted that nearly half of the earth's 10 million species of microorganisms, plants, and animals will be destroyed or severly threatened!!!!!!!!!!
 * 7) 70% of the plants found to have anticancer prpoerties are only found in the rainforest ,and one fouth of todays medicines are provied by the rainforests!!!!!!!!!
 * 8) The machines that the logging and other companies that cut thees weigh 15 ton, have 8 blades that are revolving 320 times per minute, and can cut whole trees into chips the size of a matchbox and can cut up 200 species of trees in a small amount of minutes!!!!!!!
 * 9) <span style="color: #0c8301; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">It is being predicted that the world will no longer exist in the year 3000 if we keep going, because we are destroying the rainforest which gives ud 80% of the air we breath, and we will lose so many medicines that made from plants that we would die from cancer and other diseases!!!!!!

<span style="color: #0c8301; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: #0c8301; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Solutions for rainforest destruction: Personal thoughts: I personally think that we as the people that live on the earth should be taking care of the habitats of the animals, because when our habitat is being destroyed we make it better. Well animals can't do that as well as we can so we should help them instead of hurting them because when we do that it's destroying our world to. We will also be making our world more boring, because we will be takeing away species and studies that is my opinion.
 * <span style="color: #0c8301; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Don't cut trees down unless you replant them
 * <span style="color: #0c8301; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Watch the amount of trees cut
 * <span style="color: #0c8301; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Don't use deforestation to make a field for crops just use afield that already exists
 * <span style="color: #0c8301; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Monater they amount of touism that is active in the rainforest
 * <span style="color: #0c8301; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Watch the minning that goes on and limit a certain amount of area used for minning

__Animals that are being affected:__ Organizations:
 * Anacondas
 * Alligaters
 * Apes
 * Ants
 * Frilled Lizard
 * Chlamydosaurus
 * Emerald Tree Boa
 * Jaguar
 * Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
 * Envirnmental Defence Fund (EDF)
 * Rainforest Alliance
 * Amazon Watch
 * Friends of the Earth (FOE)
 * Sierra Club

Sources: [] __ [] __ __ [] __ http://www.savetherainforest.org/savetherainforest_006.htm