Every minute we lose parts of forest the size of twenty football fields. But you might ask why is this a problem or why should I care? Well, there is approximately over 30 million species of plants, animals and incest that call the rainforest their home. The loss of these species homes, which toke sixty to hundred million years to evolve isn’t the only reason deforestation is a problem and a lot of them affect you too. Twenty percent of the world’s oxygen is produced in the amazon rain forest alone along with twenty-five percent of our medicines come from the rainforest. Which we have only discovered 1% of the plants there, image what diseases the other unexplored plants could possibly cure. Another thing I was unaware of when first learning
