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The World United To Save The Rainforest.
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The Amazon rainforest is one of the most precious yet threatened assets on Earth. It is a sink that withholds carbon from the atmosphere, mitigating the problem of man-made global warming. It is also a rich storehouse of biospanersity from which countless products in daily use originated and at least 25% of modern medicines are derived.
The Amazon rainforest basin is being cleared for logging and unsustainable agriculture at a rate of 10,000 square miles every year - a land area larger than Maryland and slightly smaller than Belgium. Slashing and burning of trees in tha Amazon alone contributes at least 5% to global greenhouse gas emissions.
Try to imagine the outrage and horror if portions of Central Park in New York, or Richmond Park in London were being illegally slashed and burned....
It would never happen!
Parks are critical to the health and well-being of every city, not just New York or London.
However, if the impossible happened and Central Park was sold for commercial development, it would raise over $200 billion!
That’s enough money to buy and save the ENTIRE Amazon rainforest!