Tropical Rainforest Research Paper

Earth faces many problems. But the worst of them all is rainforest destruction. People are cutting down our trees in our rainforests. We need our rainforests on our Earth. Rainforest destruction is the most serious threat to our Planet!

Three to six billion trees are cut down each and every year! Deforestation is a huge problem in the rainforests. Because these forests are home to much of the Earth’s species of life. Covering 30 percent of our land forests provide homes, protection, and oxygen for humans and other wildlife in the forests. There are 7.125 billion people that count on the benefits provided by the forest, which is: food, clothing, traditional medicine and shelter. If something isn 't done soon to reduce our carbon footprint, we will not have forests of any type to soak up the carbon dioxide(CO2) in the atmosphere.

    The rainforests also provide us with 25% of the medicines we have today. We have only yet discovered 1% of all plants and found so many medicine. Think what would happen if we explored all the plants? We would probably have medicines to all the diseases that exist. Again, we are destroying what can really save us.

Deforestation is an environmental problem everybody gets affected by; but not equally. Cutting down trees and degrading the soil of an eco-system can change it for the worse and leave it unrecoverable. The Amazon Rainforest is a large and very biodiverse ecosystem that stretches across 5,500,000 kilometers. The Amazon Rainforest is not a stranger to deforestation since the late 1960’s. Deforestation in the amazon forest will cripple all organisms that rely heavily on the forest to provide for a sustainable life, while others not directly impacted may benefit from it. Other people may benefit from the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest from the profit that comes with the use of land for agriculture/livestock. However, the tribes, plants, and animals, that live in the Amazon Rainforest suffer from the loss of Biodiversity, the habitat and resources that are being taken away from clearing forests, and the reduced air quality along with the increased carbon emissions. Deforestation is a process of demolition towards the ecosystem.

There is rapid extinction in the Amazon Rainforest. Medicines we use today come from the Amazon. Within rapid deforestation in the next 40 years we will lose the Rainforest. I think ecologist should study the the forest to create new medicines and other remedies.

Crash! There goes another tree, plummeting down to the Earth, in the Amazon rainforest. There goes less oxygen we breath everyday. There goes another living thing. The Amazon rainforest is suffering, and as the rainforest suffers, so do we. Business people usually don’t care about the Amazon, and, probably, use paper made from the rainforest trees, but that’s because they didn’t do their research in middle school. Some people say that the Amazon rainforest are the lungs of the Earth, but they could also be the heart as well. If we don’t save this rainforest, then our planet, along with us, with scourge gravely.

Another scenario that can impact the species population in the tropical rainforest is Gold Mining. This practice leads to water contamination and therefore species population declines because they are drinking contaminated water in addition to their habitat getting destroyed.

Tropical rainforests are responsible for more than half of the world’s biodiversity. The rainforests used to cover around 14 percent of the earth, but due to deforestation, rainforest hardly cover six percent. Humans play a big role in the declining of the tropical rainforest, which also impacts the biotic and abiotic factors. It may seem not that terrible at the moment, but we’re actually losing 137 species everyday. If this keeps happening, it’s going to affect humans soon because some medicines can only be found in the plants and animals in the rainforest. That's not the only thing that’s affected, there’s also the cycles of matter which is necessary for life.

to our world. Statistics show that only 30% of the earth’s rainforests are left and that is an

Many of these organisms can only be found in the rainforest, but with the amount of rainforest available for inhabitance diminishing daily, many interesting and little-known organisms are being driven to extinction, all by deforestation. In fact, every single day, an estimated 137 species of organisms dwelling in the rainforest become extinct. Given the amazing biodiversity that exists in rainforests, there are a huge number of organisms that scientists have yet to discover and examine, but with this accelerated rate of species extinction, potentially priceless information is being lost. From a medicinal point of view, the rainforest is an absolute sea of knowledge that is yet to be understood and deciphered. For example, in terms of cancer-treating medicines, seventy percent of all the drugs that have been found have been discovered in plants which only dwell in rainforests. Overall, a quarter of the western medicine that is accessible today has been derived from rainforest plants. Knowing this, when governments or other people take part in rainforest deforestation, it is almost as if people are destroying their own chances for finding cures to diseases that plague this world.

The people that live by the rainforest will be effected in many ways. In the

Covering about 6% of the earths surface and spanning across Africa, Asia, Australia, and Central and South America, rainforests provide humans with timber, animal products and medicines. Unfortunately these resources are often over exploited, and many rainforests have been subject to heavy deforestation. Logging rainforests to make room for farming/urbanization is also an issue in many

Tropical rainforests are among the most threatened ecosystems due to large scale as a result of human activity. Habitat fragmentation caused by geological processes such as volcanism and climate change occurred in the past, and have been identified as important drivers . However, fast human driven habitat destruction is suspected to be one of the major causes of species.Tropical rain forests have been subjected to heavy logging and agricultural clearance throughout the 20th century, and the area covered by rainforests around the world is shrinking.

Even today, modern governments seek to make profit off of the Amazon. For instance, Brazil gives incentives to people to migrate to the forest in hopes of building new cities and to develop this last great frontier. The sad thing about this migration of people into the rainforest pertains to the affects they have on the region. Over the last fifty years, nearly 15% of the Amazon has been destroyed, with most of the destruction attributed to burning. With destructive forces pillaging the rain forest, many plants and animals face an uncertain future.

As I said, rainforests provide natural medicines, food, and habitats for lots of species. The rainforest provides everyday things like avocados, cashews, guavas, black pepper, coconuts, figs, citrus fruits like oranges and lemons, bananas, corn, yams, cloves, vanilla, and chocolate. Andrew Einspruch, author of, “Rainforest Habitats,” states in the book, “80% of what people eat in the developed world first came from a rainforest somewhere.” and Rainforest Foundation states that, “About 1.2 billion people in the world rely on the rainforest for their survival.” This shows how much the Rainforests are important to people around the world. Other than food from the rainforest, you also get many natural medicines to help with sicknesses and diseases. 90% of known diseases can be treated with prescription drugs from nature, and in the book, “Rainforest Habitats,” it states, “In 1991, researchers found a substance in twigs of a particular Malaysian gum tree that blocked the spread of the AIDS virus in human cells. A team of biologist rushed back to Malaysia to get more, but