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The rainforests of the world are a tremendous resource for many of the world’s people. Many of the things we buy like fruits, vegetables, medicines, sugar, cinnamon, cocoa and even kola nuts (which are used to flavour cola drinks).
There were an estimated ten million Indians living in the Amazonian Rainforest five hundred years ago. Today there are less than 200,000.
Rainforest covers 7% of the Earth’s land surface. Although they cover only a small portion of the Earth, tropical rain forests are home to over 50% of the world’s plants and animals. Fifty species of rainforest animals, of which most are insects and spiders, become extinct every day.
Please save the rainforest now!!!
How many tigers are left in the world?
How many acres of land is destroyed every minute?
How many people live in the rainforests?
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