EDS is a professional services company helping companies and governments leverage information and technology use. They are hosting this rainforest content on the Web. Simply click through on the numbers of the parts you want to check out on the map below. The video clips may take up to a minute to install. Rainforests are being destroyed at rate of at least 50 million acres a year, an area the size of England, Wales and Scotland combined.
Tropical rainforests are the Earth's oldest living ecosystems.
Fossil records show that the forests of Southeast Asia have existed in more or less their present form for 70 to 100 million years. Seventy percent of the plants identified by the National Cancer Institute as useful in cancer treatment are found only in the rainforest. Drugs used to treat leukemia, Hodgkin's disease and other cancers come from rainforest plants, as do medicines for heart ailments, hypertension, arthritis and birth control. Greenpeace has a great website on saving old-growth forests . Visit the Lunatree website to learn how you can help the Headwaters Forest in California.