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Rainforests are essential - Coggle Diagram
Rainforests are essential
They are a powerful, natural climate solution
Regulate global temperatures
Regulate local micro-climates
they stabilize ocean curents
They are home to many animals.
Bengal Tigers
Mountain gorillas
Jaguars
They maintain the Earth's supply of water.
They add water to the atmosphere by the process of transpiritation.
Deforestation reduces the moisture realeased into the atmosphere
The plants are used for some medicine
They are so full of bioderversity
Compounds in the plants help treat Malaria and many more.
Tropical forests have become a net carbon emitters.
Tropical forests that once served as the Earth's carbon sinks now emit more carbon then they absorb.
Because of deforestation and forest loss
A swath of rain forest the size of 40 football fields disappears each minute
Humans have destroyed nearly half of the world’s original forest cover.
Our planet loses tropical forestland equivalent to the size of Bangladesh is every year.
1 out of 4 people worldwide depend on forests for their livelihoods.
Nearly 1.6 billion people—more than 25% of the world’s population—rely on forest resources
Generating sustainable, forest-based livelihoods that incentivize conservation is a proven approach to saving the world’s forests.