Help Me Save The Rainforest! (A post by Katie)

Every month I have to do a "Helping Our World" project where I have to do something that has a positive effect on our world. So, I've decided to put up my BCR (brief constructed response) I made back November about how we should save the rain forest. This was not hard at all, so don't worry:

"It is EXTREMELY important to save the rain forest. The tropical rain forest used to cover 14% of the earth's surface. Now, it only covers 6%! Over half of the rain forest has been destroyed! This is NOT good. More than 20% of the world's oxygen comes from the rain forest. We need oxygen to survive, so we need the rain forest. 137 plants, animal, and insect species are lost every day (update: that's 50,005 per year)! We should not kill all these plants, animals, and insects in ONE DAY, every day! There are 3,000 known plants that help treat cancer. 70% of these are found in the rain forest (update: that's 2,100/3,000 plants).Cancer is terrible, and we need these plants to fight it! 1 1/2 acres of the rain forest are destroyed EVERY SECOND (update-that's 200,000 acres everyday, and 780 miles every year)! We use many items from the tropical rain forest on a daily basis, such as banana,coffee beans,cocoa beans,rubber, alkaloids, digitalis, spices, etc. We need these things, as they are a part of our lives. If we destroy the rain forest, we will lose many things that are important in our lives."