What are very important facts on why destroying the rainforest is a bad idea?

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>Tropical rainforests are among the most efficient regions in oxygen production, surpassed only by coral reefs.

>>Destroying the rainforest means destroying one of the earth's biomes and a habitat for literally thousands of species.

>>>Perhaps the plant that holds the cure to cancer or AIDS exists in the rainforest. Already, many plants are being found in the Amazon that has important medical properties.

>>>>The Amazon rainforest is home to not only many thousands of species, but the Yanomami people.

Rainforest can act as a soil erosion prevention like landslides.

We need the oxygen from them, animals live in them, and its a home for people to

鈥淭ropical rainforests are among the most efficient regions in oxygen production, surpassed only by coral reefs鈥?br>
This simply isn鈥檛 true.

Rainforests produce very little if any oxygen, and the best scientific evidence to date says that they consume more oxygen than they produce.



AN OFT-HEARD WARNING with regard to our planet's future is that by cutting back tropical forests we put our supply of oxygen gas at risk. Many good reasons exist for placing deforestation near the top of our list of environmental sins, but fortunately the fate of the Earth's O2 supply does not hang in the balance. Simply put, our atmosphere is endowed with such an enormous reserve of this gas that even if we were to burn all our fossil fuel reserves, all our trees, and all the organic matter stored in soils, we would use up only a few percent of the available O2.