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Rain Forest Plants

Rain Forest Plants

Advocates of rain forest conservation are working to preserve the plant and animal species living there, especially the ones the have yet to be discovered by scientists. For example, the Amazon Basin is home to 8,235,430 km2 of dense tropical forest covering parts of Brazil and Peru. Much of this area is unexplored and contains many living organisms that we haven’t even discovered yet. Environmentalists fear that undiscovered species may be extinct long before we have a chance to study them due to an increasing problem called deforestation.

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