|
|
This is only a preview of the paper
Click here to register and get the full text.
Existing members click here to login
|
|
|
... Many medicines, foods, natural insecticides and oil
producing trees are found in the rainforest. The rainforest also holds endless possibilities for
useful, undiscovered resources. These could include cures for disease and new food crops that
will be wiped out before they are found because of the destruction of the rainforests. The
rainforest is also home to millions of species of animals, plants and insects as well. It is
estimated that five out of six rainforest species have never been seen. ... This demonstrates that more species
live in the rainforest than any other ecosystem on earth, and we are obliterating their only
habitat. The rainforest is also a big producer of the world’s oxygen supply. When we destroy
the rainforest, we are destroying our own oxygen supply. This essay will explain the causes
for rainforest destruction in Central and South America only. Massive destruction of our
precious rainforests is caused by logging, colonization due to over-population, and cattle
ranching.
The first major cause of mass destruction in the rainforest is logging. ... The trees in the rainforest are connected at the top with vines, so when one
commercially valuable tree gets cut down, on average 17 other non-commercially valuable
trees fall down with it.
Approximate Word count = 928
Approximate Pages = 3.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
|
|
|
|
|
|