Benefits we get
Tropical rainforests serve humans in
many useful factors. They are earth’s lungs and produce oxygen we breathe,
removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Many medicines can be derived from tropical
rainforest plants such as:
- Curare (used as a muscle relaxant
during surgery)
- Diosgenin (used for arthritis,
asthma, and birth control pills)
- Quinine (used for malaria and
pneumonia)
- Vincristine/vinblastine (used for Hodgkin’s
disease, leukemia, and other cancers)
We can get a lot of crops through
agriculture such as tea, coffee, bananas, oranges, lemons, peanuts, and pineapples
as well. Not only crops, but valuable wood can be used to make furniture while lower quality wood
can be used to make plywood and fiberboard.
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| Diosgenin plant |
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| Plywood |
http://home.howstuffworks.com/plywood.htm
"Deforestation of Tropical Rainforests - A Case Study of Madagascar." Geocases1.co.uk.
Web. 15 Nov. 2012.
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