There was once a time when the rain forest covered 14 percent of earth's surface, but that time was long gone, now it covers less than half of that, only six percent. What is more sad than that is experts predict that in less than 40 years the last of the rain forest will no longer exist according to rain-tree.com.
With "one and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries" we are losing the beauty on our planet. Why is earth's beautiful rainforest being killed and chopped down? According to rainforestconcern.org, the top reasons why the rainforest are being cut down and killed are because of cattle ranching, logging, agriculture, mining, oil companies searching for new oil and dams. So many people are after the wealth of the rainforests.
Our rainforests have a lot of value, according to rain-tree.com "more than half of the world's estimated ten million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical rainforests. One-fifth of the world's fresh water is in the Amazon Basin." Between every two and a half acres an amazing 750 and 1500 species of trees and plants exist. It is very sad to listen to these facts when one and half acres are lost per second.
What can we do as students? Some good ways are to know how to
reduce reuse and recycle all your material such as newspapers, glass, aluminum foil, oil and conserve on gass as much as possible. Even though are rainforest are out of sight to us, always rememeber we are still affected by them and what we do still affects them. The more we use the three R's the more we help save our planets gems, the rainforests.
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| The killing of a rainforest is an ugly picture |
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| A dead rainforest is no rainforest |
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| Every inch of the rainforest has great beauty |
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| Rainforest are beautiful lets keep it that way |
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