Habitat Loss in the Rainforest

By Chase Robbins an William Crudo

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Habitat Loss in the Rainforest

The Time Has Come...

Now get out there and help save the precious rainforest and all of its animals! It isn't going to save itself you know.

How You Can Help

• You can plant new trees when one is cut down
• Use both side of paper and then recycle it
• Help support the WWF
• Get educated on habitat loss and the animals it is affecting
• Petition to establish a preserve to protect wildlife

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Examples of Extiction because of habitat loss

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Extinct Periwinkle plant

Golden Toad

The Impact

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Vespucci's Rodent

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The impact of rainforest habitat loss takes a devastating toll on plants and animals. Some key impacts are:

• Animals die without their natural habitat
• Tropical rainforests which are only 7% of the world’s total land mass, harbor as much as half of all known varieties of plants.
• 120 perscription drugs are derived from rainforest plants which could be lost
• Over two-thirds of all medicines found to have cancer-fighting properties come from rainforest plants
• A now-extinct periwinkle plant wiped out by deforestation had increased the chances of survival for children with leukemia from 20 percent to 80 percent.

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Rainforest Animals

There are lots of different species of animals that live in rainforests such as macaws, sloths, spider monkeys, ect.

Almost half of these animals are considered endangered, and we are making this happen with logging and carbon emissions. These animals are rare, like we said that only 2% of the Earth is rainforest.

Deforestation

Deforestation is the process in which people cut down trees.

This not only harms the environment but it also harms the animals living their.

Only 2% of the Earths surface is covered in rainforests so by cutting these places down we are destroying a very rare area and then we burn the logs or make them into paper releasing carbon dioxide in the air and that causes global warming.

information found at http://www.rainforestfoundation.org/commonly-asked-questions-and-facts/