With technology greatly progressing through this century the rain forest has been destroyed at a fast rate. The rain forest is the home of about 50% of all species, the rain forest is a resource that should be saved and must be saved. It is once thought that the tropical rain forest was at one time a great space of 1.5 billion hectares but as the time goes on slowly that number shortens. In the year 2000 it was thought that there will only be 900 hectares left on the Earth. Even though there is not any rain forest in the United Stat

In 1995 when 2 million square miles of rainforest were cut down, the covered enough distance to travel from the rocky mountains to Rhode Island. This research seems to indicate that if more and more rainforest s cut down the atmosphere will be more and more polluted adding to the environmental problems already faced by the earth. Randy Hayes once said, " We'll boycott a corporation until the sends of the Earth if we have to, because the end of the Earth is really what is at stake." This quote is really notable because it is correct. If companies are not boycotted the end of the earth may rapidly approaching. A large company based in Japan cuts trees into tiny pieces to create disposable chopsticks and this organization is one of the ones he is most likely talking about. What a waste of the rain forest, disposable chopsticks. These chopsticks are not made directly form the first growth trees of the rain forest but from cleared spaces in the land. Fast growing hoop pines are planted in these spots. They are then harvested and monthly, 45 billion chopsticks are shipped out. With all this technology the rainforest is rapidly decreasing. And as Anderson Mutang Urud says, "The forest is our home, our house. If a thief comes in, we must take action. To us the loggers are thieves in our homeland"

The destruction of the rain forest is a real problem in the world today because of technological advancements. Since the technology movement has come upon us, more and more wood and resources have been taken from the land. The loss of the forest was not a great concern to the world 100, 50 or 30 years ago. This is because there was not the technology to get into and use the resources from. Each time a tree is cut down, an animal's home is gone. In each hectare of the rain forest there may be homes to possibly two hundred animals. The sudden change in the rain forest can directly be related to the technology being invented presently. So many people are interested in saving the world with medicines, that they have forgotten that their cures cause problems of their own.

Many companies have been trying to help the forests by making rules. Emil Salim, Indonesia's minister for control of development and the environment said, "We have good rules. Select cutting only, and mandatory replanting. The problem is enforcement." Another group that is helping the rain forest without even knowing it is the Kuna Indians. They are a group of Indians that live

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