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| Evergreen, tropical rain forests are to be found on all continents, on both sides of the equator, about to the 10-th degree of latitude, especially in South America, Asia and Central Africa. The biggest coherent surface - more than half of the total area of all tropical rain forests - is in the area of the Amazon basin. Other big rain forests are still to be found in the Congo basin and in Indonesia. The tropical rain forest marks an ecological system which encloses a huge number of forest types: on the one hand, the lowland rain forest to about 800-m height, on the other hand the mountain rain forest to about 1500-m height and the nebulous forest from 2000-m height. |
| The tropical rain forest is home for approx. 90% of all kinds of species in this world. The ecological system rain forest carries the main interest of the worldwide biodiversity and is comparable with the coral reefs of the oceans. The rain forests of Asia, America and Centralafrica contribute with lasting effect to the worldwide climate protection. Only about 7% of the land mass of our globe are still covered with rain forest. Every minute our globe loses approx. 28 ha of forest. The population explosion, unawareness and greed carry are responsible for the clearing of rain forests in an inconceivable speed. Biodiversity is also called „ life insurance of the nature “. Only the variety of the species, the genes and ecological systems enables to adjust itself always adaptably to new conditions like the climate change. |
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A great part of our western drugs is based on rain forest plants. One estimates only about 1% up to now of the plants at a possible remedial effect been investigated. The rain forest and its rich vegetation is the biggest hope of the medicine against illnesses like cancer and AIDS.
With every felled tree in the rain forest animals and plants die from partly yet were not discovered. The gigantic rain forests are the " green lung “ of the planet, our biggest CO2 memory and oxygen supplier. With every felled tree there rises the CO2 interest and aggravates a global process whose consequences have become incalculable |
The animals of the rain forest, in particular the last apes, the Gorrilas, Chimpanzees and Bonobos are threatened by extinction. It is five after twelve. Now for many animals any help already gets too late.
What can you do? There are already some important projects and initiatives which work to preserve the rain forest. WPE strives in with existing organisation to work close together. A competition thinking is here is absent on the place. The rain forests need any conceivable help.
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