Parts of Hawaii. Eddison Sadd Editions, New York. Parts of Alaska. In New Zealand, Tasmania, Chile, Ireland, as well as Scotland and Norway. One quarter of today's pharmaceuticals come from Tropical Rainforest plants.
Rainforests control climate by influencing wind, rainfall, humidity and temperature.
They recycle water, oxygen and carbon which reduces soil erosion, flooding and air pollution. We have destroyed half of all the world's Rain Forests. They are disappearing at a rate of about 100 acres every two or three minutes. Tropical Rain Forests produce oxygen and consume carbon dioxide. Slashing and burning of Rainforests contributes a great deal to the global warming and the greenhouse effect.