Why should tropical rainforests be protected?
- Created by: westanrevision
- Created on: 30-03-22 20:25
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- Why should tropical rainforests be protected?
- biodiversity
- tropical rainforests contain more than 1/2 of all the plant and animals in the world
- medicine
- around 25% of all medicines come from rainforest plants
- resources
- valuable hardwoods, nuts, fruit and rubber
- water
- rainforests are important sources for clean water
- people
- indigenous tribes live sustainably, e.g. the Achuar tribe of the Peruvian Amazon
- climate change
- rainforests absorb and store CO2 (carbon sink)
- climate
- rainforests prevent the climate from becoming too hot and dry - and produce 28% of the world's oxygen
- biodiversity
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