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Guney and Jessica's Tropical Rainforest Conservation Page

In the tropical rainforest we are losing the Earth's greatest natural treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a less than 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years. Nearly half of the world's species of plants, animals and organisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation. If we cut down the trees they won't take in the carbondioxide and with all the extra gasses it will destroy the ozoone layer. That is what is making Global Warmming.

People are changing their minds about rainforest. Instead of cutting them down they are preserving them. The Association Promoting Education and Conservation of the Amazon is a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of the Peruvian Amazon rain forest, its native people and their cultures. Founded in 1993, APECA began as a floating health clinic, delivering medical services to the remote Amazon river villages of Loreto, Peru. Since then, APECA has established programs in health education, nutrition, sanitation and natural medicine. This is just one of the many organization that is saving the rainforest form being cut down.

People have been invading the forest and the destorying them. Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day in the rainforest. That makes at least 50,000 species a year. As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources.

To save the trees we cut down...

-recycle everything you can

-re-use brown paper bags to line your trash can instead of plastic liners. Re-use bread bags, butter tubs, etc

-all of these things reduce the amount of paper that we need

To save the animals...

-stop hunting them

-preserve them and make laws about hunting them

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