1. DESTRUCTION OF RAINFORESTS
By Kevin

2. Why rainforests are being
destroyed?
 Timber value
 Farming and ranching
 400 dollars is made for timber and farming
per acre
 However, if people harvested what was in the
rainforest they could make 2400 dollars per
acre

3. How rainforests are being
destroyed?
 Fires
 Chainsaws
 Bulldozeres

4. What’s happening to the
rainforest?
 14% of the land surface on earth was once
covered by rainforests, now only 6%
 Every second one and a half acres of
rainforests are destroyed

5. Medicine from Rainforests
 25% of prescription drugs made by plants are
found in the rainforest
 Of the 3000 plants identified to be against
cancer cells 70% of them are found in the
rainforest

6. Oxygen from the Rainforest
 In one hectare which is about 2.5 acres there
are 2,250 different types of trees and plants
 20% of the oxygen in the world comes from
the Amazon Rainforest alone

7. Food from the Rainforest
 There are over 3,000 fruits in the rainforest.
200 of them are used by us. Indians that live
in the rainforest use over 2,000.
 80% of the world’s diet came from the
rainforest

8. People living in the
rainforests
 Indians that live in the rainforest are losing their
homes
 Five centuries ago there was about ten million
Indians that lived in the rainforests now there are
only two hundred thousand

9. How to protect the rainforest
 If we can convince people to use plants for
medicine, food, and other resources from the
rainforest. It will help stop the destruction of
rainforests.
 If we market these products we can help the
economy of the Indians in the rainforest and
our own economy by using the resources of
the rainforest to make more money

10. References
 http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm