Some products that we use almost every day that are grown in the rainforest are coffee, bananas, citrus fruit, chocolate, antibiotics, mangoes, tranquilizers, make-up, vegetables, rubber, and wax. Originally 8 square miles of rainforest covered the earth. More than half of it has now been burned, bulldozed, or cut-down. Tropical Rainforests are the oldest kinds of forests there are. Many animals live in the rainforest some of them include jaguars, pumas, ocelots, monkeys, crocodiles, iguanas, and frogs.
Rainforests produce large amounts of oxygen and they also purify the Earth.
Rainforests provide up to 40 percent of all medical products there are and more than 2,000 plants that are used for anti cancer drugs. It is estimated that in 40 years if rainforests keep being cut down at the rate they are they will be gone forever. Because of the rate that the Rainforest is being cut down we are losing 137 plant and animal species every day. That is more than 50,000 species per year. Rainforests normally get 4-8 meters of rain every year.