Depletion of the rainforest
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The consequences are devastating:
We are losing an estimated 137 plant, insect and animal species each day – or more than 50,00 species per year.
25 percent of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from the rain forest – yet less than 1 percent of plants and trees have been tested.
More than half of the world’s 10 million species call the tropical rainforests home.
Nearly 80 percent of the developing world’s diet originated in the rainforest.
Of the 3,000 fruits found in the rainforest, only 200 are used by Western civilization.
Reasons for destruction include:
Logging for hardwood: Logging concessions in the Amazon go for as little as $2 acre.
Fuel wood and paper: One power plant and pulp mill in the Brazilian Amazon resulted in the burning of 5.600 square miles of rainforest. The plant consumes 2,000 tons of rainforest wood every day.
Grazing land
Subsistence farming
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