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Why are forests
important? Soil
Forest soil is rich in
Can you imagine what the world would be nutrients because of the
trees and fungi that grow
like without forests? It would be a very in it. Soil traps water and can
different place. Forests provide us with stop rivers from overflowing
many important things such as medicines, after heavy rain.
timber, and the air that we breathe.
Jaguar Fungi in soil
make nutrients
Soil holds the roots of trees. for trees.
Ginger
Books
Rich wildlife
About 80 percent of the plants and
animals that live on land are found
in forests. Rain forests in Brazil, Timber
Madagascar, and Indonesia are
home to wildlife that live The wood that trees are made of
nowhere else on Earth. has many different uses. It can be
used to build furniture, houses,
and boats and can be turned into
pulp to make paper. The book that
you are reading now once started
its life as a tree! Bananas
Sloth
Eurasian hedgehog
Timber
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