... lives of humans. A lot of people have no clue of how important it is. As a matter of fact, because of the rainforests, many people have lived. One-fourth of existing medicines are derived from tropical plants whose homes are in the rainforests of South America . For every acre that is lost in the burning season, there is one acre less that we have for possible life saving medicines. About ... come to an ecological halt. Every day 144,000 acres of the rainforests are cut down, slashed and or put up in flames. It is very devastating to hear of the destruction the rainforests face every da...

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... of alligators, anacondas, monkeys, parrots, sloths, and wild species of cat (Amazon 403). A 2.5-acre area may contain as many as 280 or more species of trees and hundreds more plant species making every square inch as valuable as the next (Amazon 402). The trees may stand as tall as 130 feet with their tops growing intertwined protecting the valuable ecosystem below from the harsh ... jailing farmers who continued to disobey the new regulations (Mirabella). Despite this development in awareness, the governments are still allowing the deforestation to take place, but are simply trying to...

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