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Welcome to C.A.R.D! C.A.R.D stands for Campaign Against Rain forest Destruction. This wiki is very important-an area of rainforest the size of a football field of rain forest is being destroyed every second! So check out our "No Time To Lose" page. Here are some virtual animals that live in the rain forest. Well, of course virtual animals don't. I mean real life animals! :)

media type="custom" key="12504660" This is a spider monkey. They are smaller than a lot of other monkeys. They, like all monkeys, are endangered. media type="custom" key="21776136" Sloths are the world's slowest mammals. media type="custom" key="21786906" Many other types of monkeys also live in the rain forest. media type="custom" key="21879960" Also, many types of exotic fish live in the Amazon Basin, and in rivers in the rainforest.

http://www.destination360.com/south-america/brazil/images/st/brazil-amazon.jpg

We want the whole rainforest to look like this, right?

Please also go to our other pages: Letter to Brazil Facts on what C.A.R.D is about Destruction pics Facts on the rain forest:
 * 1) One football field of the Rainforest is being cut down!
 * 2) It is killing animals and the endangered ones!
 * 3) In the rainforest, there are cancer-treating medicines.
 * 4) Rainforests only cover 6% of earths land, but it used to cover 17%.
 * 5) The most rare trees are also being cut down.
 * 6) One-fifth of the world's fresh water is found in the Amazon Basin.
 * 7) Rainforests are threatened by unsustainable agricultural, ranching, mining and logging practices.
 * 8) Over half of all plant species on earth live in the rainforest
 * 86,400 football fields of rainforest per day, or over 31 million football fields of rainforest each year are being cleared.media type="custom" key="22684272" width="210" height="210"