Rainforests are made up of thousands of species of plants. Some of which are needed to produce medicine and antidotes to help cure/prevent diseases. One quarter of the ingredients to make medicine come from rainforests.
Native people that live in rainforests have developed medicine to cure many problems and other stuff like diarrhoea and stomach aches.
If rainforests are not maintained those certain plants needed to make the medicine could disappear and we would have to find another way to cure/prevent diseases. That could me a lot of people could die or become sick before another cure/antidote is created.
Can you imagine a world without medicine to cure dying people? A world without medicine to prevent swine flu spreading to you? A world with the common cold spreading rapidly?
Native people that live in rainforests have developed medicine to cure many problems and other stuff like diarrhoea and stomach aches.
If rainforests are not maintained those certain plants needed to make the medicine could disappear and we would have to find another way to cure/prevent diseases. That could me a lot of people could die or become sick before another cure/antidote is created.
Can you imagine a world without medicine to cure dying people? A world without medicine to prevent swine flu spreading to you? A world with the common cold spreading rapidly?