Wilder Sex As Deforestation Rise

These pictures show two common things about rainforests anywhere. For example, Brazil, Malaysia and Australia all have huge areas rainforests. These rainforests are all home to some of the world's beautiful babes. Huge tracks of rainforests in all 3 countries have been cleared for golf courses, agriculture, timber and hot pit girls.

Myth: Hot pit girls drive you wild. Truth: Burning rainforests drives many wild.

Some 3,088 square miles of Amazon's forest were destroyed between August 2007 and August 2008 — a 69 percent increase over the 1,861 square miles felled in the previous 12 months, according to the National Institute for Space Research, which monitors destruction of the Amazon.

This is the first such increase in three years — as rising demand for soy and cattle pushes farmers and ranchers to raze trees.

The Amazon rainforest is so vast and full of life that even its defenders don't know exactly what it is they are protecting. The rainforest, which encompasses an area nearly as large as the continental United States and stretches across nine countries, is considered the world's richest and most varied natural habitat, with several million species of insects, plants, birds and fish calling it home. It also plays an important role in regulating Earth's temperature as its dense vegetation absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen into the air.

According to Cláudio C. Maretti, Brazil-based director for conservation for the World Wildlife Fund, the wealth of biodiversity is so immense, ". . . we cannot even estimate the amount we don't know. Every new expedition you do to the Amazon, you might find one new species of fish. Every other, you might find some new bird or frog." Read more on CNN's special edition, Planet in Peril

But the Amazon has been under pressure from outside forces for decades. In the past 40 years, roughly 20 percent of the rainforest has been wiped out, according to Maretti. The threat to rainforests in South East Asia is also acute. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, from 2000 to 2005, Cambodia lost nearly 30 percent of its primary forests and Vietnam lost close to 55 percent.

What's uncommon about rainforests: In Sarawak, after milking the land, a large timber company, gives salt to the natives of the rainforest. Read more here . . .

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Here are 3 take-home lines from www.savetherainforest.org:

If you are thinking a year ahead, sow the seeds.
If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree.
If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people.