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Destruction of the rainforest
Title: Destruction of the rainforest
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1567 | Pages: 6.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Destruction of the rainforest
DESTRUCTION OF THE RAINFOREST AND THE EFFECTS ON MODERN MEDICINES
Deziray Swing
Modern medicine has turned to old medicines to cure the most tragic modern diseases. As has been reported in news reports, magazines, journals and books, most of these cures reside in the rain forests, which are being destroyed.
Central Africa’s forests are estimated to have over 10,000 species of plants (Allen 1998). “Most of the plant-derived drugs in use today come from only about 90 …showed first 75 words of 1567 total…
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