With technology greatly progressing through this century the rain forest has been destroyed at a fast rate. The rain forest is the home of about 50% of all species, the rain forest is a resource that should be saved and must be saved. It is once thought that the tropical rain forest was at one time a great space of 1.5 billion hectares but as the time goes on slowly that number shortens. In the year 2000 it was thought that there will only be 900 hectares left on the Earth. Even though there is not any rain forest in the United Stat

Peter White writes about how in Central America and Amazonian, spans of undisturbed forests have been cleared for cattle ranches and farms due to the need for a greater advancement of technology. Too often, the pastures and fields lose their productivity after a few years and then more forest must be destroyed. An alternative to this destruction is being developed at North Carolina State University. The scientists there believe that year round crops can be grown for many years at a time, if scientifically managed. By using soil analysis, modern fertilizers and crop rotation this has been successful. In Peru, a field has raised a variety of plants and found this to be a success.

es, the rain forest greatly affects us in ways not known to all. Many medicines are found in the rain forest and many of them treat common diseases. Malaria is an example of a disease that has it's treatments coming from quinine, taken form the cinchona tree in Peru. Also in surgery, d-tarbocuranine is greatly relied on as a muscle relaxer. It is made form curare, derived from an Amazonian liana. This research shows that the medicinal aspect of the rain forest is definitely needed for the advancement of technology itself.

Many companies have been trying to help the forests by making rules. Emil Salim, Indonesia's minister for control of development and the environment said, "We have good rules. Select cutting only, and mandatory replanting. The problem is enforcement." Another group that is helping the rain forest without even knowing it is the Kuna Indians. They are a group of Indians that live in the forest. They inhabit a expanse of 1240 sq. miles and they protect it. They way they do this is my religion. They believe evil spirits live inside the forest, so to not upset th4em they don't upset the rain forest. The forest ca even be saved without the use of technology. Clearly the rain forest is a precious natural resource and the technological destruction of the this natural resource effects the entire world. All the destruction taking place today can be fixed, but as Randy Hayes says, "You have to think of it as a long-term process." It is possible that we can heal the wounds created today but it will take a lot of mending. The advancement of technology is hurting the nature once known to this world. With all this technology, the world is moving so fast that the simple things in life that we all take for granted may not be there for us to take for granted

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