Rainforest
...s tree frog is definitely eye catching. The Red-eyed tree frog can change its color with its mood from a darker green to a reddish-brown. These tree frogs have suction cup toe pads. In this frog, males are smaller than the females. Males usually reach a length of about 2 inches while females are usually 3 inches in length. They prefer the lowland rainforest areas close to rivers and the adjacent hills. These frogs are carnivores and feed primarily at night, feasting on crickets, moths, flies, grasshoppers, and sometimes even smaller frogs. Reproduction usually takes place during the rainy season, which is October to March. Courtship is initiated by croaking and quivering. These are extremely interesting frogs whose habitat is located in the Amazons Tropical Rainforest. Problems in the Rainforest Deforestation is the act of destroying a forest and this concern is the act of destroying the rainforest. Companies today are destroying our rainforests all across the globe. This deforestation is taking place in places like the Amazon, Central America, Africa, India, Bangladesh, Haiti and the Philippines. The people who are clearing the land are killing animals or forcing them to live in a habitat that they are not accustomed to, so they end up killing those too. Especially logging, mining, clearing trees for cattle grazing and building dams and highways where rainforests once existed are wiping out species of the rainforests. Today we are dependent on the food and products the rainforests provide for us. As the ecosystem shrinks, more and more species lose the resources that they need to survive. Although we are not totally dependent on the oxygen the rainforest produces, the chain effect of the rainforest not producing oxygen will affect us. Tropical rainforests are being destroyed at a rate of fifty million acres a year. The area of that destroyed land is the size of England, Scotland, and Wales combined. One fourth of all the medicines come from plants. When rainforests get burned and are left to decay, the decay releases carbon into the atmosphere. This is part of the Greenhouse effect that is harming our atmosphere. About seventy percent of the treatments for cancer are plants that live in the rainforest. The drug for treating Leukemia, Hodgkin’s disease and many others come from the rainforest. Medicines for heart disease are also found in plants in tropical rainforests. Before man started having a big impact on the rainforests, it covered more than six billion hectares. Now days there are three billion hectares. Today obviously it is worse for the plants, animals and the rainforests itself. From 1960 to 1990 about four hundred fifty hectares of tropical rainforests were cleared or burned, a fifth of the area of rainforests. Only twenty-two percent of the original large rainforests. The other sixty percent are left scattered throughout the global surface where it does not provide enough protection for flora and fauna. The tropical rainforests of the past were better off than the tropical rainforests of today and tomorrow but hopefully the people of this world will understand that we need to protect our endangered rainforests. Ways to Solve the Problem: Some organizations say that the people can join groups and help the rainforests or we can do it individually ourselves. An organization you can sign up for is called The Rainforest Action Network, RAN. They say that we the people could reduce the beef consumption. The United States alone import more than two hundred million pounds of beef from Central America. The organizations say to boycott destructive companies who are destroying our rainforests, and to support the responsible companies like Shell oil and Home Depot. They say to recycle oil-based products and any paper. There are many ways to contribute in restoring the tropical rainforests of the wo...