What Negative Impact Are Humans Having On The Rainforests?

Before human beings came along, tropical rain forests of all kinds covered more than eight million square miles. When we cut down trees for timber, paper pulp, and other wood products, we destroy 40 million acres of rain forest every year. By the end of the year 2000, there were less than 3.4 million square miles of rainforest left.

Less than 5 per cent of the world's tropical rain forests are in protected national parks. The other 95 per cent can be plundered for its valuable natural resources. As long as the destruction continues, one rain forest species becomes extinct every 15 minutes. If our use of the Earth's tropical rainforests does not change, they will all have disappeared by the year 2200. Approximately 25 percent of the Earth's species will already be extinct by the middle of the 21st century.

More than 5000 plant and animal species found in rainforests are used all over the world for food, medicines and other products.

We are cutting down animals homes and then killing the animals for our own enjoyment its not right