background of tropical rain forests

            The tropical rainforest are located in warm areas near the equator, where they receive around 400 inches of rain per year and has a constant supply of precipitation  supports the 1000's of different plant and animal species throughout the forest.  They once covered over 10 billion acres of land, but has reduced to less than 20 million acres.  These perfectly balanced ecosystems bring quality and life to global ecosystems which millions of different species are struggling to maintain the life that the rain forests used to provide.  25 percent of medicine comes from the rain forest, and many more undiscovered cures for diseases as serious as cancer will never behind revealed due to deforestation.  The cleaner air that thousands of species breath and need to survive are provided from the protection of the rainforest trees.  The trees are what regulate and determine the earths climate and services that are directly linked to the support of trees, such as landslides  and other types of erosion.  Leaving these forests untouched will only help the future of pollution, the atomosphere and  the remaking of rich and fertile areas.