However, exporting tropical timber and products from monoculture plantations that were grown on rainforest land seems more important than the safety of our entire ecosystem that provides us with so much more. The majority of the human race does not know how dependent we are on the rainforest. We allow it to diminish right before our eyes. The negative impact of deforestation is far greater than we know and we must end it. First, however, we must be aware of the problem in order to save it.
Deforestation causes the extinction of species.
More than fifty percent of the world's species live in the rainforest, and as the destruction continues, more species will be lost. If the demolition persists, we not only lose animals but also many plants that possibly hold medical cures. A cure to stunt the spread of AIDs has been found in a certain rainforest tree, but because of the fast destruction rate, the trees have been destroyed. The team sent biologists racing back to Malaysia for more samples from the tree. But when they got to the swamp, the tree was gone, it had been cut down.