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Medicines that fight heart disease and treat cancer patients are made from rainforest plants. Aspirin originally came from the rainforest. A flower called the rosy periwinkle helps treat children with Leukemia ( a kind of cancer).
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"Holiday Inn's partnership with Rainforest Alliance shows how big companies are discovering cost-effective ways to support sustainable practices," said Tensie Whelan, executive director of the Rainforest Alliance. "Blending beans from certified farms into mainstream brands helps support on a large scale farms that are having positive environmental and social impacts."
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The soil in the rainforest is nutrient-rich. The warm, wet conditions cause vegetation and animals to rot very quickly once they've died. Decaying plants and animals get recycled back into the soil.
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This is a giant of the rainforest. The Blue Quandon is an integral part of the rainforest canopy layer, hiding the sun from plants below it. It has a blue fruit about 3cm in diameter.
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In addition to being logged for exportation, rainforest wood stays in developing countries for fuel wood and charcoal. One single steel plant in Brazil making steel for Japanese cars needs millions of tons of wood each year to produce charcoal that can be used in the manufacture of steel. Then, there is the paper industry.
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Fact: Every second, a slice of rainforest the size of a football field is mowed down. That's 86,400 football fields of rainforest per day, or over 31 million football fields of rainforest each year.
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