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Unbelievably, more than 200,000 acres of rainforest are burned every day. That is more than 150 acres lost every minute of every day, and 78 million acres lost every year(Leslie Taylor)! Our planet’s forest are depleting every day with many species of animals and plants. The Bengal Tiger is severely endangered and with the population decreasing so fast they may be extinct soon . Today, less than 1,500 are left in the wild, but at the beginning of the 20th century there were over 50,000. Poaching and loss of habitat are the two major reasons for the decline in numbers. Iguazu, Manu’, Fraser Island, Central Suriname, Salonga, Rio Platano, Cerrado, Amazon, Noel Kempff Mercado and Tasmanian are a few of our earth’s rainforest, they may hold some of the greatest secrets to medicine and cures to diseases that plague us today. Deforestation is increasing at a alarming rate and it needs to be stopped.
Unbelievably, more than 200,000 acres of rainforest are burned every day. That is more than 150 acres lost every minute of every day, and 78 million acres lost every year(Leslie Taylor)! Our planet’s forest are depleting every day with many species of animals and plants. The Bengal Tiger is severely endangered and with the population decreasing so fast they may be extinct soon . Today, less than 1,500 are left in the wild, but at the beginning of the 20th century there were over 50,000. Poaching and loss of habitat are the two major reasons for the decline in numbers. Iguazu, Manu’, Fraser Island, Central Suriname, Salonga, Rio Platano, Cerrado, Amazon, Noel Kempff Mercado and Tasmanian are a few of our earth’s rainforest, they may hold some of the greatest secrets to medicine and cures to diseases that plague us today. Deforestation is increasing at a alarming rate and it needs to be stopped.3
Deforestation is the loss of forests due to overcutting of trees. One consequence of deforestation is soil erosion, which results in the loss of protective soil cover and the water-holding capacity of the soil. Deforestation has been going on by humans for thousands of years. Fire was the first tool that made it possible for humans to modify the landscape. The first advidence of deforestation shows up in the Mesolithic period. With the advances of agriculture humans quickly started destroying the trees to create land for their own use. The earliest evidence of plant and animal extinction caused by man (deforestation) goes back some 4,000 years. Of course, as the industrial revolution got underway, deforestation took off in more developed countries to build housing and suburbs. The rate of deforestation in tropical regions of Latin America, Africa, and Asia have been increasing at a alarming in recent decades. This deforestation is driven by the rapid growth in size of the human population of these regions, with the attendant needs to create more agricultural land to provide additional food, and to harvest forest biomass as fuel. In addition, increasing industrialization of the trading economy has caused large areas of tropical forest to be converted to agriculture to grow crops for an export market in wealthier countries.
Deforestation is the loss of forests due to overcutting of trees. One consequence of deforestation is soil erosion, which results in the loss of protective soil cover and the water-holding capacity of the soil. Deforestation has been going on by humans for thousands of years. Fire was the first tool that made it possible for humans to modify the landscape. The first advidence of deforestation shows up in the Mesolithic period. With the advances of agriculture humans quickly started destroying the trees to create land for their own use. The earliest evidence of plant and animal extinction caused by man (deforestation) goes back some 4,000 years. Of course, as the industrial revolution got underway, deforestation took off in more developed countries to build housing and suburbs. The rate of deforestation in tropical regions of Latin America, Africa, and Asia have been increasing at a alarming in recent decades. This deforestation is driven by the rapid growth in size of the human population of these regions, with the attendant needs to create more agricultural land to provide additional food, and to harvest forest biomass as fuel. In addition, increasing industrialization of the trading economy has caused large areas of tropical forest to be converted to agriculture to grow crops for an export market in wealthier countries.4
Deforestation is deteriorating many species of plants and animals that thrive in the rainforest. Nearly half of the world’s species of plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation. (Leslie Taylor) Deforestation occurs mainly by people clearing forest for land for farming, housing, shopping malls, parking lots, and many more uses. We are the parasite of the planet , we live off the planet (host) and destroy it to survive. Plants and herbs have been found that could very well be the secret treasures and cure to cancer, AIDS, HIV and other diseases that plague use today. “More forest destruction could well deny science the opportunity to discover and develop further potential sources of life-saving medication.”(Dr. Murray Tait, Vice President of Drug Discovery at Cerylid Biosciences.) Not doing anything we are just as guilty as the people that are cutting and burning our forest. We could be letting all these great secrets be destroyed. Our rainforest may control weather we exist on the planet or not. We could be facing a new plague and our only hope will be gone because we couldn’t realize that in these vast jungles lye our only hope that we destroyed. Experts estimate that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That equates to 50,000 species a year. As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.(Leslie Taylor of Raintree Nutrition, Inc.) There is the chance that all these plants and herbs may not be as effective as we presume or hope. In the end is it really worth even throwing away a slight chance of saving a variable of lives that will never be found without the finding of a cure.
Deforestation is deteriorating many species of plants and animals that thrive in the rainforest. Nearly half of the world’s species of plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed or severely threatened over the next quarter century due to rainforest deforestation. (Leslie Taylor) Deforestation occurs mainly by people clearing forest for land for farming, housing, shopping malls, parking lots, and many more uses. We are the parasite of the planet , we live off the planet (host) and destroy it to survive. Plants and herbs have been found that could very well be the secret treasures and cure to cancer, AIDS, HIV and other diseases that plague use today. “More forest destruction could well deny science the opportunity to discover and develop further potential sources of life-saving medication.”(Dr. Murray Tait, Vice President of Drug Discovery at Cerylid Biosciences.) Not doing anything we are just as guilty as the people that are cutting and burning our forest. We could be letting all these great secrets be destroyed. Our rainforest may control weather we exist on the planet or not. We could be facing a new plague and our only hope will be gone because we couldn’t realize that in these vast jungles lye our only hope that we destroyed. Experts estimate that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation. That equates to 50,000 species a year. As the rainforest species disappear, so do many possible cures for life-threatening diseases. Currently, 121 prescription drugs sold worldwide come from plant-derived sources. While 25% of Western pharmaceuticals are derived from rainforest ingredients, less that 1% of these tropical trees and plants have been tested by scientists.(Leslie Taylor of Raintree Nutrition, Inc.) There is the chance that all these plants and herbs may not be as effective as we presume or hope. In the end is it really worth even throwing away a slight chance of saving a variable of lives that will never be found without the finding of a cure.5
More than 50% of the world’s plant and animal species inhabit the 7% of the world that is covered in rainforest. Do we really want to be the cause of extinction of half our worlds species, the questions doesn’t even need to be asked. Also when we cause a single species of animal to become extinct, it is not just that animal that surfers. When a species become extinct it will cause a chain reaction of endangerment or extinction of species that depended on the extinct species niche. “Forest loss and fragmentation is associated with an increasing pressure on lemurs, the most important dung producers in Madagascar. According to the fossil record, 16 large-bodied lemurs have gone extinct since human colonization ca 2300 years ago,” Ilkka Hanski “The long-term and dramatic decline of H. undatus [a species of dung beetle] may be due to high degree of resource specialization.( Ilkka Hanski) Everyone doesn’t want to be the cause of a entire species extinction. There are many factors that play a role in the extinction of animals. A major cause is the loss of habitat, cutting down a tree is like destroying a apartment complex. Also when a species reach a certain amount of population in a variable amount of area the chance of reproduction is decreased and leads to extinction. This theory has been stated in The Theory of Island Biogeography (1967) by Robert H. MacArthur & Edward O. Wilson. At the rate we are going we are going to end up being the only species on the planet. Imagine being the only species on the earth never having a dog, no eggs in the morning, no milk with your breakfast. We are not the only species on this planet and we need to learn to respect that.
More than 50% of the world’s plant and animal species inhabit the 7% of the world that is covered in rainforest. Do we really want to be the cause of extinction of half our worlds species, the questions doesn’t even need to be asked. Also when we cause a single species of animal to become extinct, it is not just that animal that surfers. When a species become extinct it will cause a chain reaction of endangerment or extinction of species that depended on the extinct species niche. “Forest loss and fragmentation is associated with an increasing pressure on lemurs, the most important dung producers in Madagascar. According to the fossil record, 16 large-bodied lemurs have gone extinct since human colonization ca 2300 years ago,” Ilkka Hanski “The long-term and dramatic decline of H. undatus [a species of dung beetle] may be due to high degree of resource specialization.( Ilkka Hanski) Everyone doesn’t want to be the cause of a entire species extinction. There are many factors that play a role in the extinction of animals. A major cause is the loss of habitat, cutting down a tree is like destroying a apartment complex. Also when a species reach a certain amount of population in a variable amount of area the chance of reproduction is decreased and leads to extinction. This theory has been stated in The Theory of Island Biogeography (1967) by Robert H. MacArthur & Edward O. Wilson. At the rate we are going we are going to end up being the only species on the planet. Imagine being the only species on the earth never having a dog, no eggs in the morning, no milk with your breakfast. We are not the only species on this planet and we need to learn to respect that. 7
I have spoke of humans destroying species of plant and animals, but one that usually is looked over is humans destroying people. Forest loss and fragmentation is associated with an increasing pressure on lemurs, the most. The loss of our forests contributes to approximately 20 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions each year — more than all the world’s trains, planes and automobiles combined. Another jab to humanity is destroying tribes that live in these rainforest. In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900′s. With these tribes gone centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medical value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to be destroyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also disappearing. (Leslie Taylor) These people that we are destroying their homes and ways of life have been there for thousands upon thousands of years. These people have medical techniques that our doctors can learn about these same plants we are destroying. They could very well have the secret cure for cancer. How we know if we keep destroying their homes and there tribes and ways of lives. If we can’t help save our own species than are we any better than a tree. Actually we are worse because we can do something and we choose not to we are the parasite that cares only about ourselves and not the well being of a whole. If there is a absolute scum of the planet we are it.
I have spoke of humans destroying species of plant and animals, but one that usually is looked over is humans destroying people. Forest loss and fragmentation is associated with an increasing pressure on lemurs, the most. The loss of our forests contributes to approximately 20 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions each year — more than all the world’s trains, planes and automobiles combined. Another jab to humanity is destroying tribes that live in these rainforest. In Brazil alone, European colonists have destroyed more than 90 indigenous tribes since the 1900′s. With these tribes gone centuries of accumulated knowledge of the medical value of rainforest species. As their homelands continue to be destroyed by deforestation, rainforest peoples are also disappearing. (Leslie Taylor) These people that we are destroying their homes and ways of life have been there for thousands upon thousands of years. These people have medical techniques that our doctors can learn about these same plants we are destroying. They could very well have the secret cure for cancer. How we know if we keep destroying their homes and there tribes and ways of lives. If we can’t help save our own species than are we any better than a tree. Actually we are worse because we can do something and we choose not to we are the parasite that cares only about ourselves and not the well being of a whole. If there is a absolute scum of the planet we are it.8
Our planets forests are being decimated every day with many species of planets and animal species. We have no right in destroying these plants, animals and most of all our planet’s forest. We are a parasite that is sucking the planets resources and depleting it to a unlivable state for all species including us. Humans are going to end up destroying every species on this planet including ourselves. We need to end this belligerent act of destruction on our forest and start protecting it.
Our planets forests are being decimated every day with many species of planets and animal species. We have no right in destroying these plants, animals and most of all our planet’s forest. We are a parasite that is sucking the planets resources and depleting it to a unlivable state for all species including us. Humans are going to end up destroying every species on this planet including ourselves. We need to end this belligerent act of destruction on our forest and start protecting it. 
I like this paper, it serves more than one purpose and it delivers. My only suggestion is to cite the facts more. You mention number in your first paragraph, where did those number come from? I certainly didn’t know them, which is good for this assignment, but I’d like to know you found the information on a respectable source. In saying that, I believe you’ve done a fine job on everything else.
I like the way you have those facts in the first two sentences. they will really draw the reader in and help prove that you have done your research. you need to move your exclamation mark after the parenthesis. But in my opinion you have won this this arguement.
I think you are very factual and you give a lot of support to your paper. Well written.