People are rapidly destroying the world's rain forest. In 1950, rain forest covered about 22,533,000 square km (8,700,000 sq miles) of the earth. This area would cover about three-quarters of Africa. Today, less than half the original extent of the earth's rain forest remains. In such regions as Madagascar, Sumatra, and the Atlantic coast of Brazil, only small patches still stand. Few rain forest species can adjust to serve disturbance of their habitat. Most perish when people clear large areas of forest. Scientists estimate that tropical deforestation wipes out about 7,500 species per year. Commercial longging, agriculture, mining and hydroelectric dams have all damaged or wiped out extensive areas of rain forest.
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Rain forest benefit people in four major ways. They provide (1) economic, (2) scientific, (3) enviromental, and (4) recreational value.
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image 1: https://greentumble.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Strategies-to-reduce-deforestation-1.jpg
image 2: https://www.merseyforest.org.uk/images/pages/21/1/woodland_walk.jpg
It is disappointing that in a world where there is so much talk of ecology, there is still such a level of deforestation. Science and technology should work more to make that we can manufacture the articles without using wood as a raw material.
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