In conclusion, I hope you have gained an appreciation for the complexity of the tropical forest. With complexity comes more niches.
More niches mean more species.
Tropical rain forests have the highest species diversity on Earth. If you remove them, the soils may be permanently damaged and it is difficult if not impossible to regrow a tropical forest once it has been cleared away. Without the forest, the ecosystem with its varieties of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria and people is lost, also. In the rainforest, we were privileged to meet Andres and his family. They are Secoya Indians and hunt monkeys with blowguns.