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The Scarlet Macaw is a rainforest native

Everyone thinks they know about the world's rainforests right?

They are being logged now at an unbelievable rate. When the rainforests go, so do the plants, animals, insects, birds (and the rest of us).

Over 80% of threatened parrot species depend upon rainforests for their survival.

The Hyacinthine Macaw, possibly the most striking and most known of the endangered parrots, is the largest of the Macaw family and lives in the rainforests of Brazil. The Blue and Gold Macaw is also native to Brazil.

Photo above Brazilian Children With Blue and Gold Macaw copyright Lee Ryan Miller

Q. Are rainforests really that important?

It is thought that for every illness and disease, out there in the rainforests; there is a plant or tree holding a cure, just waiting to be found.

(Provided the potential cures are not destroyed first due to the logging)

Up to 70% of all plants identified so far in the rainforests have anti-cancer properties. (Source from the National Cancer Institute)

A. Yes

Rainforests are found ONLY in tropical areas of the world.

The Amazon is home to the world's largest tropical rainforest, covering over one million aquare miles.

Today only less than 6% of the earth's land is covered by rainforest.

Each year an area the size of Kansas is destroyed

Aerial photo above of the Amazon river and rainforest

Global warming?

Did you know that tropical rainforests also produce oxygen and regulate the world's weather?

Trees absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, when trees are destroyed they release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, destroying the ozone layer.

The tropical rainforests have existed for MILLIONS OF YEARS.

Amazingly true, in the last 50 or so years, MAN has destroyed more than half of the world's tropical rainforests.

Man and his greed, by either logging for timber or clearance for agricultural crops.

There is no arguement that these crops are necessary to feed the world's human population. Developed countries have more than enough to feed everyone and so much goes to waste. These crops are NOT used for the local communities but sent abroad to us. Even the land which is logged then farmed with livestock, is not intended for the local communities but again sent abroad, to us.  

150 acres of tropical rainforest are lost every minute.

Total rainforest destruction throughout the world within the next 40 years?

Surely not?

Photograph left of a massive stock pile of illegal logs in Indonesia.

Click on the links below for some further information on the Rainforests of the world

It's up to you:

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No pain - No gain

The 1997-1998 El Nino event with its fires, floods and outbreaks of disease and pestilence, offers a glimpse of the future in a warmed(?) world and illustrates vividly the disastrous consequences, that even minor fluctuations in the climate system can bring.

Scientists warn that the rates of climate change are likely to exceed any in the last 10,000 years, making it impossible for many ecosystems to adapt and survive.

Remember it's your world.

AND THERE ARE NO SECOND CHANCES!!!!!

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