The rosy periwinkle which comes from the rainforest can be used as a medicine for cancer. Vanilla comes from an orchid that lives in the rainforest. The cocoa tree produces cocoa, which is made into chocolate. Most important of all, however, the rainforest supplies a precious seventy percent of the world's oxygen. Recently, the rainforest has been under unmerciful deforestation .
Deforestation takes place when trees are cut down in the rainforest.
Farmers living in areas of rainforests have been deceived by the rich, green look of the rainforest. Many of these farmers think that they will receive crops just as green if they plant them next to the rainforest. The fact is when an area is logged, the fertile topsoil is washed away so nothing can grow there. Every year, humans cut down fifty-five million acres of land. Like termites and wood lice, man has invaded the rainforest because of its exotic samples of wood from which he hopes to get rich harvesting.