Facts+You+Need+To+Know!

=** Can you believe this?!?!?!?! **=
 * 1) =**One football field of the rain forest is being cut down every second.**=
 * 2) =**It is killing animals - and the endangered ones!**=
 * 3) =**In the rain forest, there are many medicines that cure and fight cancer.**=
 * 4) =**Rain forests 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) =** Rain forests are threatened by unsustainable agricultural, ranching, mining and logging practices. **=
 * 8) =** 86,400 football fields' worth of rain forest per day, or over 31 million football fields' worth of rain forest each year are being cleared. **=

=** Girl Scout Cookies Are made of Palm Oil Which is bad for the environment. But they are changing the oil to environmentally friendly oil in 2013! And they pledge to do it by 2015. **=