Maddie

**Directions:**
==**Please use the following readings to write ten facts on the rainforest. I would like facts that pertain to the following categories: medicine,** inhabitants of the rainforest (plants or animals), products produced from the rainforest and people that live or work in the rainforest including cultures and tradition.==

**How does the destruction or abuse of the rainforest affect animals, plants or people?**

 * Use the following resources: The Great Kapok Tree (pg 364-377) and the three short stories. Please include pictures or videos in your finding.**

===**1.A famos artist named George Catlin worried that poeple would settle into the Yellow stone river and use it all up.Lawmakers decided to create a park where the yellow stone River flowed, though parts of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho.**===

**5.There is many medicines in the rain forest, including 25 percent of the** ingredients in totoday's cancer drugs.
===6.the Yanomamiare are native poeple who have called Amazon home for thausand of years.When we destroy the rain forest, we take away homes and the the way of the native poeple who live there,like the Yanomamiare.===