I also found out that there were human beings living in the rainforest and these people were known as Indians. Once upon a time there were ten million living there, now there only remain 200,000. These Humans are dying out because we are cutting down there homes and taking away there land and these people rely on the natural resources for medicine, but when humans from the city come in they bring in their viruses, their colds, and many other illnesses. There are men who provide medicine for these people and they are known as shamans and the ones that remain are 70 or 80 years old, so each time a medicine man dies, it’s as if a whole city has burnt down, I say this because if this very important man dies then he won’t have time to pass his facts down onto the next generation.
A boy from the Yanomami tribe.
I read somewhere that the rainforest was described as the “lungs of the planet” and I think this is because the world is constantly breathing out carbon dioxide but the rainforest takes in all the air that we breath and recycles it and turns it into oxygen, more than 20% of the oxygen is made in the rainforest.
The rainforest also provides us with medicines that we need to get better, in some plants in the rainforest they contain alkaloids, which is used in most of our medicines.
Why the rainforest is so important?
Peruvian monkey just one of the animals that live In the rainforest
The plants and animals in the rainforest have given us a lot of natural resources for the survival and well being of humankind. These resources like I mentioned before include food, fuel, shelter and medicine.
Sadly because of this deforestation it brings nasty consequences like air and water pollution, soil erosion, more carbon dioxide being breathed into the air, the loss of the Indians and the extinction of animals and plants. Fewer rainforests means global warming.
What can be done?
One simple thing human beings can do to save the rainforest is when the trees are being chopped down, well they should replant, to preserve the rainforest which isn’t hard.