The reason for this report is to address the ever-increasing problem of rainforest deforestation in the Amazon. “If the Amazonia were a country, I would be the ninth largest in the world”. (Raintree Nutrition. Inc.). This quote shows the extent to which deforestation in the Amazon affects our planet. The Amazon is so vast in it’s contribution to the earth as it supplies “20% of the world’s oxygen”, “one fifth of the world’s fresh water” (Raintree Nutrition. Inc), whilst rainforests worldwide provide “121 prescription drugs”, “More than half of the world’s estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and insects live in tropical rainforests” and “ 80% of the developed world’s diet originated in the tropical rainforests” (Raintree Nutrition. Inc.). The most common and obvious reasons for rainforest deforestation are for commercial logging for raw materials, land clearance for grazing and colonization. However, the causes run much deeper than this as will be shown throughout this report. Although we may not directly see the impac

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