In a Tropical Rainforest

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In a Tropical Rainforest
Imagine walking through a rainforest Rain drips
from the tips of leaves Frogs croak and monkeys
cry As giant butterflies quietly pass by Imagine
walking through a rainforest by JoEllen
Moore
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• Scientists estimate that a rainforest area the
  size of a football field is destroyed each
  second

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• Tropical rain forests have up to 80 and as much
  as 240 inches of rain a year. It rains more than
  200 days a year.

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• About 3,000 rainforest plants can be used to make
  medicines that fight cancer..

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• A few acres of rainforest in the Amazon River
  Basin have more species of plants than in all of
  Europe

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• An estimated 50 species of plants and animals
  become extinct every day

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• Rainforests grow in more than 50 countries. Most
  are found in Brazil, Indonesia, and Zaire.

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• In the Central American rainforest, you could
  find 950 different kinds of beetles on one large
  tree!

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What can we do to save them?