Restore damaged ecosystems by planting trees on land where forests have been cut down.

Teach others about the importance of the environment and how they can help save rainforests.

'TREES' is a concept originally devised for an elementary school audience but serves well as set of principles for saving rainforests and, on a broader scale, ecosystems around the world. Beyond the responsible development of rainforests, efforts to rehabilitate and restore degraded forest lands along with the establishment of protected areas are key to securing rainforests for the long-term benefits they can provide mankind. So, what should be done? The solution must be based on what is feasible, not overly idealistic, and depends on developing a conservation approach built on the principle of sustainable use and development of rainforests. Economic, political, and social pressures will not allow rainforests to persist if they are completely closed off from use and development. Most people agree that the problem must be remedied, but the means are not as simple as fortifying fences around the remaining rainforests or banning the timber trade.

However, this destruction can be slowed, stopped, and in some cases even reversed. Much of this remaining area has been impacted by human activities and no longer retains its full original biodiversity.ĭeforestation of tropical rainforests has a global impact through species extinction, the loss of important ecosystem services and renewable resources, and the reduction of carbon sinks. Tropical cover now stands at 2 billion hectares (7.7 million sq miles), an area about the size of the United States plus China and representing around 13 percent of the world's land surface.

Rainforests continue to be destroyed at a pace exceeding 80,000 acres (32,000 hectares) per day.

Today tropical rainforests are disappearing from the face of the globe.

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