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Data on the jungle you need to know
Every second one, a chunk of rainforest the size of a football field is being destroyed, while we take care of our business. Did you know that:
Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, landowners and global companies seeking to extract their wealth. Forests covered 14% of the surface Earth's land, and now only cover only 6%. It is estimated that in less than 40 years, the last remaining rainforests could disappear forever. Almost half of the world's species of plants and animals living in the jungle soon may disappear completely as a result of the jungle deforestation. We are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every day due to rainforest deforestation is equivalent to 50,000 species a year and rising. Many potential cures for diseases never life-threatening may now encounter from the extinction of many rainforest species. Today, 121 drugs sold worldwide come from original sources plant. Less than 1% of these trees and tropical plants have been proved by scientists, while 25% of all Western pharmaceuticals are the variety of plants. It is estimated that over 90 indigenous tribal people have been destroyed by settlers since 1900, only in Brazil, and with them have gone centuries of knowledge accumulated in the medicinal value of rainforest species, and all that wisdom. Today there are fewer than 200,000 Indians living in the Amazon rainforest where five centuries ago there were an estimated ten million dollars. The world loses thousands of years of irreplaceable knowledge about medicinal plants as a medicine man dies, and could not pass on your wisdom to the next generation.
The forests are so biologically diverse that the loss of them will have a devastating impact worldwide. The destruction of href = "http://www.helprainforest.org"> forest species and habitats of the rainforest is apt to be the only thing that our children will never forgive us.
More facts:
There are more varieties of fish in a single pond in Brazil that all rivers in Europe combined. The total tree diversity in North America is about 700 varieties. The same amount is in a single plot of 25 acres in Borneo. More species of birds are found in a Peruvian jungle reserve alone than in all United States. Forty-three different species of ants were found in just one tree in Peru. The number of different fish species throughout the Atlantic Ocean is exceeded by the number of fish species in the Amazon River.
Today, rainforests occupy only 2 percent of the entire Earth's surface and 6 percent of the world's land surface, yet these remaining lush forests support over half of our planet's wild plants and trees and half wildlife in the world. Hundreds and thousands of these rainforest species become extinct before they have even been identified, much less identified and studied.
We must stop the destruction of the forest. These facts about the forest are crucial. It is vital that we learn everything you can about the rain tropical mankind that irreversible error. It is estimated that ninety percent of all tropical rainforest ecosystems will be destroyed by 2020 if deforestation continues at current rates. No longer. We must do all we can to help the forest .
About the Author
Annie Horkan is an artist/internet marketer who loves everything green, travel adventure, longevity and all matters of the heart and spirit.
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Determined to help save the rainforest before it is too late.
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