Essays on rainforest

The rainforest are lush woodlands with vegetation with high temperatures and lots of rain. It is home to two-thirds or all living species on the planet. It also holds many medicines. The rainforests cover approximately seven percent of the planet. The rainforest acts as a natural filter. It cleans and recycles water and stores carbon dioxide.

The rainforests cover approximately seven percent of the planet. The rainforest acts as a natural filter. It cleans and recycles water and stores carbon dioxide. The picture to the left is a natural water fall in the rainforest.

As in other humid tropical forest regions worldwide, negative consequences include losses of biological and cultural diversity, changes in the regional and potentially global climate, and an increase in social conflicts.” (Kommers, 2007) Deforestation describes the removal of trees along with other types of vegetation.

Trees in the rainforest recycle water drawn from the forest ground. This, combined with the moisture that evaporates from the leaves is released into the atmosphere from whence it came. If not for this enormous amount of rainwater supplied by rainforests, rivers, lakes and land masses would essentially dry-up spawning droughts of epic proportions.