The Importance Of Tropical Rain Forest

Register to read the introduction… This expansive ring of vegetation remained unchanged for fifty million years. However, today's trees cover merely one third of our earth. Today the picture is strikingly different. According to Roger Stone, reporter of USA Today, "Planet Earth once contained approximately 6,750,000 square miles of closed canopy rain forest" (74). Unfortunately, each year another two percent of this priceless treasure is lost. At these present rates of destruction, there will be only few small patches of tropical forests remaining beyond the year 2050.
There are a variety of factors why we are losing so much of our world's rain forests, yet the principle reason is also the simplest. Ignorance of people's basic ambitions to work the forest's soil and live off land is this reason. To …show more content…
I thought this simply because I have learned about them ever since my first geology/history class in elementary school. I never thought that there was such a mystery lurking behind the outside wall of the standing timber. As I began my research, I was constantly shocked by information that was left out of lesson plans in my past education. I had heard rumors of the miraculous cures for deadly diseases that supposedly dwelled in the midst of the rain forests. However, I didn't know for sure until I discovered such information in well creditable sources. It disgusted me to visualize the well-educated people of our country, from anyone like cattle ranchers to government officials, are participating in the destruction of our precious rain forests. Whether they are chopping down trees with their bare hands, or given their permission for others to do so, they are all still contributing to this devastating