Importance of The Rainforests
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The rainforests are very important to the world for lots of reasons, most of them being simple. One major reason is that the plants in the forest turn carbon dioxide into Oxygen, which helps us fight pollution and Gives us breathing air. Also, by absorbing carbon dioxide, the rainforests helps to prevent the greenhouse effect. The trees of the rainforest store carbon dioxide in their roots, stems, branches, and leaves.


The plants and animals of the rainforest also provide us with food, wood (used for fire fuel mostly), shelter, jobs, and medicines. Imagine losing the potential cure for cancer or aids that might have been found in an undiscovered plant from the rainforest, This is why we shouldn’t destroy it.


The vine Aucistrocladus Koropensis may be effective in treating aids; we can only guess what other helpful medical discoveries may be destroyed before we find them. It is repeated often that the rainforest contains important plants that will cure the worst diseases. Although there is scientific proof of its value, the rainforest continues to disappear before us.

In every sense, a standing rainforest supplies more economic wealth then if it were cleared… …yet deforestation continues at a high and alarming rate.