the rainforest

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The rainforest

What is the rainforest?

The rainforest is the earth’s oldest living ecosystems, they are very beautiful. They contain over half the worlds animals and plants. I describe the rainforest as a jungle, with lots of trees and animals and plants and they need the rainforest to survive.

While doing some research I found out some very shocking facts. I found out that the rainforest covered 14% of the earths land surface and now it only covers 6% and experts claim that if the rainforest continues to be cut down that the last remnants of the rainforest could be gone in less than 40 years. The rainforest is disappearing rapidly due to many reasons and one obvious one is the wood on the trees is being used for fuel and charcoal, another thing they use the wood for is to make furniture. One more reason why we are loosing the rainforest is for cheap meat, they cut down all the trees so cattle can graze and eat and then the meat is imported for food to other countries.

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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 ...

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