!! There may still be time to choose
For million of years,the tropical rain forest of south East
Asia,South America,and Africa have been the Earth's natural chemical laboratories,botanic gardens and zoos.Today we are destroying them at such a rate that within 25 years,only fragments will remain of the vast forest of Malaysia and Indonesia.Because they grow mostly in poor tropical soil,relying upon a natural cycle between trees and animals for nourishment and replenishment,the forests cannot be replaced.When the trees are felled,nutrients are rapidly lost,soil erosion begins, plants die and animals go,and within a few years,the whole area that was once a forest becomes a
wasteland
We are losing for ever the Earth's greatest treasure house of plants and animals;perhaps our most valuable natural resource for the future. And it is happening in ares where poverty already means STARVATION.It is perhaps the world's most urgent conservation problem.The destruction is happening through ignorance-the ignorance of those who believe tropical forests can easily be replaced by agriculture-through short-sightedness-the short-sightedness of those who are prepared to waste their heritage-and through the always i increasing consumer demand of the developed world for tropical timbers
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Is there no hope? As long as we ignore the rate of destruction,there is no hope.As long as we shrug our shoulders and do nothing ,there is no hope.As long as governments allow the reckless exploitation of natural resources,there is no hope
But this destruction can be stopped if enough of us show enough concern
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