Rainforest Destruction

The rainforests of the world all have one thing in common: they are all based around the equator and the tropics. Without them, many of our household products such as wooden furniture and basic necessities like coal and even air would not exist. We are losing all of our raw materials up just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and scientists estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be drained in less than 40 years. One and a half acres of rainforest are being destroyed every second because the value of rainforest land is so high due to the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners. Because of our greedy nature, we destroy 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day. If you don’t want to be part of this “we”, and feel you show some kind of response to the life threatening process of deforestation, read on.
Still reading? Now we’ll go on to a topic closer to home, namely the Amazon Rainforest. While the trees are being chopped down and the ground being dug up of all its resources, another group of people are also benefited by the largest rainforest in the world. They fight to hold on to their culture; they are the largest tribe in the Amazon rainforest. They are the Jacuna.
We sent a foreign minister on a journey to one of the biggest towns in the tribe to find out what life is really like in the rainforest. We found out what an average day was like in the rainforest.
A member of the Jacuna tribe describes his day, “I woke up in my families shared hut. It is very crowded in the hut and last night it rained and the floor is soaked. Today our family went down to the river and dad climbed up a tree using his machete to cut off some leaves. We open up the leaves and scrape out the white filling, it is very sweet and tastes like marshmallow. We only do this on the weekend because it is our