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... The rainforest also provides about 2000 tropical plants that have been identified as having anti-cancer properties (Tang n. ... Examples of medicines from the rainforest are quinine for malaria, tubocurarine for muscle relaxant and pilocarpine for treating glaucoma (Worldbook 126c). ... There are so many interesting creatures living in the rainforest for example there is the capybara, the worlds largest rodent at 75 kg. The noisiest animals in the rainforest are the toucans. ... The destruction of the rainforest should be stopped before hundreds of animal species become extinct.
According to The Nature Conservancy, originally, eight million square miles of tropical rainforest originally encircled the planet. ... An estimated 50,000 species of plants and animals are condemned to the point of extinction, as well as about 100 million species yet to be identified in the rainforest. An average of eight Indian Tribes also becomes extinct yearly because of the rainforest destruction (R Preservation n.
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