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Thursday, March 6, 2008

Rain Forest Depletion






Help save these super-cute animal babies


The world loves our rainforests, and obviously the animals living in it do too. So if we love them so much then how come 50% of the rainforest we had 58 years ago is gone. It is because careless people are cutting down acres of forest a day. Because of this almost 1 species of something dies out every 3 minutes. Rainforests once covered 14% of earth's surface, but now cover a mere 6%. And that last 6% could be gone in an estimated 35 - 40 years, so along with the polar ice caps be prepared to lose the rainforest and all the beauty that lives in it. The rainforest contains so many species in fact more than 50% of all earth's species live within that last 6% of land called the rainforest. Near 1500 species of floral plants, 125 species of mammal, 750 species of trees, 60 species of amphibians, 100 species of reptiles, 400 species of birds, and 100 species of beautiful and unique butterflies. so as you can see there are over 3035 species of what ever, they all mean something to this ecosystem, but they won't have much of an ecosystem in 40 years. All of these animals will be literally extinct, not just in the wild but many will have disappeared for good. There are so many animals and mammals, amphibians, butterflies trees, budding plants out there. Which means there is no way we will be able to capture every single one of them, and help them to thrive in captivity. All of these animals were made specially to survive in the environment of the rainforest. When the rainforest is completely gone they will have to attempt to adapt in human made facilities. or they will have to live in alleys or abandon homes, they will be living an endangered life, and always on the run. But there is a way you can help. You can actually recycle save energy, because much of the rainforest is dying from pollution. do everything in your power to help the environment, Because I'll do everything in mine. We need the environment, and at this time, it needs us. 

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