> Rainforests are made of carbon. When a forest is destroyed, this carbon is released as climate warming CO2.
> Rainforests are critical to global weather systems. They act as the world's thermostat.
> The Amazon rainforest alone provides a fifth of the world’s fresh water as well as a fifth of the world’s oxygen.
> Rainforests are home to two-thirds of all living animal and plant species on the planet, with hundreds of millions of species still undiscovered.
> The forests are known as the “world’s pharmacy” because of their wealth of natural medicines; destroying them could destroy opportunities for new breakthroughs in treatment.