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Why is Ecotourism a good way to use the rainforest?
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... Why is Ecotourism a good way to use the rainforest? The tropical rainforest in Brazil is being cut down very fast for a number of reasons. The correct word for this is deforestation. It is estimated that 7.5 million hectares of rainforest are being cut down each year - that is the same as 20 football pitches every minute. When trees are cut down, approximately 28 other trees are damaged which come down with it, leaving an empty space in the rainforest. However, there is an area of rainforest the size of Western Europe remaining in South America. Firstly tropical rainforest is being cut down because of logging, especially in the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. It is being cut down for timber, which is used to make furniture and paper, so they select an area of the forest that contains the trees they need and clear most of it away. However, mainly













