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Rainforests Picture a world without oxygen, water or medicine.

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2 Rainforests

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5 Picture a world without oxygen, water or medicine

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8 Picture a world without animals or plants

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12 The rainforest continuously recycles carbon dioxide and produces 20% of the worlds oxygen

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16 ⅕ of the world's fresh water is in the amazon basin

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20 Tropical rainforests only cover a small portion of the globe but yet are home to two-thirds of all living species in the world

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26 The plants of the rainforest are the source of half the medical compounds we use everyday

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29 Despite all these things we still cut it down for grazing land,

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31 Timber

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33 Or profit

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36 Why?

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38 The rainforest could be a source of fresh water, food and other natural resources

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41 It is estimated that 10,000 square km of rain forest disappears each year.

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43 The rainforest is more valuable alive than dead

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45 Save the rainforest and protect our world

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47 Think about it

48 Can you live without the rainforest?


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