g faster than the actual plants themselves. People of the forest have physically adapted to forest life better than other humans. The reliance of these Indians on the forest is immeasurable. “Man is not compatible with the green wall. The only way he can be compatible is if he decides that a piece of that green wall is useful to him” (Janzen 94). These natives, such as the Yanomani Indians, EFE Pygmies, and the Gimi Indians use the forest and its species of plants for food, medicines, dyes, oils, soaps, fibers, and insect repellent. There must be enough land for each tribe to accommodate the human population, without agricultural lands being recycled more than every twenty years.Tropical rain forests affect our everyday lives. Some of the foods we eat, such as Brazil nuts and many spices, grow only in the rain forests, while coffee, sugarcane, and cocoa originate there. Chisel, chewing gum, comes from the rain forests, along with bamboo and the balsa wood used for making gliders and kites. Much of what Americans eat such as, corn, wheat, rice, sugar, and coffee and tea-originated, in tropical areas. If a pest would attack, they could be wiped out completely unless we are able to go back to the rain forest to crossbreed commercial crops with their relatives in the wild. All of the twenty most commonly eaten plants in the US depend on occasional genetic strengthening from wild germ plasma for protection against blight and disease. Tropical forests supply us large amounts of this material.It is obvious that the existing benefits from rain forests are far greater than most people realize. The curare used as a muscle in heart operations, found in rain forests helps people all over the world. as many as thirty million forms of life may exist anywhere on the planet, only one million and six hundred thousand have been described by biologists, let alone assessed for their potential value to human health of well-being. ...
