Destroying Our Rainforests Every day, on average, two football fields of valuable rainforest are demolished, killing millions of animals and destroying valuable pharmaceutical factories. Many of these animals and plants have never been discovered and never will be. Experts say: “Nearly eighty percent of terrestrial species of animals and plants are found there [in the rainforest].” By destroying rainforests, humans are affecting the ozone layer and disrupting the process that allows plants to fight the deadly pollution the world produces every day. More than three thousand plants discovered can help fight cancer. Seventy percent of these plants are found in the rainforest. Periwinkle is a very essential plant that produces the drug Vincristine, the most powerful anti-cancer drug discovered to date. Scientists say: “Vincristine is used as part of the MOPP chemotherapy regimen and has helped increase the remission rate of acute childhood leukemia from twenty percent to ninety percent. » The periwinkle plant is only found in rainforest regions. Imagine no longer having access to this medicine because all the world's rainforests have been razed. The world may never find a cure for cancer, one of the most common and deadly diseases known to man, if rainforests and the plants they support continue to be destroyed. There are thousands of other plants in the rainforest that have not yet been discovered. The specialists say: “. Sixty-five to seventy-five percent of higher plant species are native to tropical forests. » If people destroy all the rainforests, only fifteen to twenty-five percent of the world's vital plants we depend on will remain. Thomas Eisner, a biologist at Cornell, estimates that "less than two percent have been explored for their medicinal potential." Every day, the world loses an average of one hundred and thirty-seven species of rainforest animals to demolition. At this rate, the planet is losing fifty-one thousand and five species per year. Most species of these animals will disappear before they are even discovered. The world then loses the opportunity to learn about all the amazing and fascinating animals that live in the rainforest canopy, due to destruction. The slaughter of these innocent and defenseless animals is incredibly unjust and cruel. Fifty thousand and five species of these innocent creatures are killed every year, just so the world can get wood..