Tropical+Rainforest's+Value

=Natural resources- Fresh water, medicinal plants, oxygen, climate, and food diversity. =
 * Fresh water
 *  20% of the world’s freshwater is found here [ H1 ].
 * Service for humans: water for agriculture, transportation, and food H1].
 * Medicinal Plants
 * thousands of plant species are used for traditional medical issues by local peoples [ H1 ].
 * Provides all the necessary ingredients to lead healthy lives and cure diseases [ H1 ].
 * 70% of plants that have anticancer properties grow here [ H1 ].
 * A quarter of all modern medicines originally came from here H2].
 * Oxygen
 * takes in enormous amounts of carbon dioxide emitted by human activity and the burning of fossil fuels while providing us with the oxygen we breathe [ H1 ].
 *  Known as “Lungs of the Earth” [ H1 ].
 * Food (diversity)
 * a regular part of our global food supply.
 * About 80% of our favorite foods came from the rainforests, including coffee, cocoa, many fruits and nuts, spices, and rice [ H1 ].
 * Climate
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> Helps regulate global and regional climate-systems by acting as heat and water pumps.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">By absorbing carbon dioxide, rainforests help reduce worldwide climate change [ H2 ].
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Wood, Houseplants, Fibers, Oils, Gums, and Resins are also found here H3].
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Maintains the water cycle [ H1 ].
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Protects against flood, drought, and erosion: tropical rainforests rapidly recycle nutrients. Forest litter, and the droppings and remains of animals are quickly decomposed, releasing nutrients. They also act like sponges, and soak up all the water and release slowly, this moderates flow of rivers and prevents flooding. But soil erosion is caused by forest clearing, where the rain falls directly onto the soil. So rain forests regulate rain from falling directly onto the compact soil, which prevents soil erosion H2].
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;">Supports tribal/indigenous people [ H2 ].


 * [[image:http://discovermagazine.com/~/media/Images/Issues/2013/November/logging.jpg width="332" height="235" caption="Wood being used from the trees in tropical rainforests"]]H5] [[image:http://www.canadianpharmacymeds.com/images/rainforests.jpg width="315" height="236" caption="Diagram/statistics of medicines obtained from the plants in tropical rainforests"]]H4] [[image:http://www.precisionnutrition.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/cacao-tree.jpg width="329" height="236" caption="most cocoa beans (which is where we get chocolate from) are found in tropical rainforests"]]H6]

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