I would like for you to take a moment to play a quick game of Let’s Pretend with me…all right?

Imagine that you are living your life as usual until one day you notice that it is very hard to breathe. You feel sluggish and you can’t function well…

And the next moment your lungs shrivel up and die.  How long do you have before you suffocate to death?

About 3 minutes.

This game of Let’s Pretend is brought to you by the world’s rainforests.  The trees are the lungs of the planet.  Kill the trees and you kill the lungs.  Kill the lungs and - well - you wouldn’t be reading this blogs if this had happened.

Maybe at first glance you may not think this applies to you or that it makes any difference in YOUR life that 1.5 acres of rainforest VANISHES every second!  

We Lose OVER 50,000 Species of Plants & Animals To Forced Extinction Every Year! 

  • Fact: A typical four square mile patch of rainforest contains as many as 1,500 flowering plants, 750 species of trees, 400 species of birds and 150 species of butterflies.
  • Fact: Rainforests provide many important products for people: timber, coffee, cocoa and many medicinal products, including those used in the treatment of cancer.
  • Fact: Seventy percent of the plants identified by the U.S. National Cancer Institute as useful in the treatment of cancer are found only in rainforests.
  • Fact: More than 2,000 tropical forest plants have been identified by scientists as having anti-cancer properties.
  • Fact: Less than one percent of the tropical rainforest species have been analyzed for their medicinal value.

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Facts about the Threats to Rainforests, Indigenous People and Species:

  • Fact: Rainforests are threatened by unsustainable agricultural, ranching, mining and logging practices.
  • Fact: Before 1500 A.D., there were approximately 6 million indigenous people living in the Brazilian Amazon. But as the forests disappeared, so too did the people. In the early 1900s, there were less than 250,000 indigenous people living in the Amazon.
  • Fact: Originally, 6 million square miles of tropical rainforest existed worldwide. But as a result of deforestation, only 2.6 million square miles remain.
  • Fact: At the current rate of tropical forest loss, 5-10 percent of tropical rainforest species will be lost per decade.
  • Fact: Nearly 90 percent of the 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty worldwide depend on forests for their livelihoods.
  • Fact: Fifty-seven percent of the world’s forests, including most tropical forests, are located in developing countries.
  • 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.
  • Fact: More than 56,000 square miles of natural forest are lost each year.

Keep the abundance of health, vitality, medicine and all other good things from our rainforest and receive thousands of dollars in free business services and products from people like:

Ted Ciuba (The new Think and Grow Rich)

Stephen Pierce

Dr. Ben Mack.

The Passion Test

Yanik Silver

Michel Fortin

and many others.  See the full list and learn more here.

And if you are not in business, please feel encouraged to give a donation of $10 or whatever you may.

I hope you’ll join me in helping save our rainforests.

Ronda Del Boccio, The Story Lady