Value of the Animals in the Rainforest

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Value of the Animals in the Rainforest

• What does the extinction of the animals in the
  Rainforest mean to me?

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Many animals come from the Rainforest.

• Many animals come from the Rainforest.
• Tropical Forests Ecological Richness
• The rainforest has 297 species of land animals in
  Asia.
• The rainforests in Europe has 134 species of land
  animals.
• Up to two hundred different types of trees that
  contain hundreds of animals can be found growing
  inn 2.5 acres of tropical rain forest.
• The intricate plant systems found in tropical
  rainforests support a great diversity of insect
  and animal life.

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More Values of the Rain Forest

• The rain forest is home to more than half of all
  its living things
• Among the animals living there the rainforest has
  an environment that contains natural rubber, oil,
  medicines, food and other products.

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Tropical Forest Pest Control

• Tropical forests help us control pests that
  destroy nearly 40 of our domestic crops. The use
  of the insects that exist in the rainforest helps
  control pests naturally.
• The rainforest gives us beneficial insects that
  control pests which destroy domestic crops.

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Life in the Leaves

• Leaves of trees and other plants are home of
  millions of insects and are most important
  Chemical factories in the world.
• The leaves not only provide oxygen but also food
  for human and animals.
• There is an interdependence between plants,
  humans, and animals.

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The Worlds Best Gene Pool

• The rain forest accounts for the emergence of
  many new species.
• The tropical rainforests benefit us by providing
  more drug-yielding plants for medicine than any
  other ecosystem.
• Experts theorize that up to 905 of all species
  inhabit rain forests.
• Ancestors of human beings first evolved in rain
  forests.

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Human Reliance on the Rain Forest

• Humans rely on the rain forests for many things
  such as food, medicines, and lumber.
• More species of animals live in the rainforest
  than anywhere else in the world.

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Tropical Plants give us fibers for

• furniture,
• soundproofing
• insulation

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Some foods from the jungle are food for the
animals but also for us.

• bananas, rice, avocados, eggplant
• lemons, limes, oranges, cucumbers, tea, cashews,
  pineapples, and papayas.