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For more information about saving the rainforest: www.amazonteam.org
www.savebiogems.org

We lose the promise and potential of thousands of life-saving medicines when rainforests are destroyed.

Many children and adults are alive today because of plants found in the rainforests. Fifty years ago, acute lymphoblastic leukemia was a lethal disease. However, thanks to the discovery of a medicine derived from a rainforest plant, we now have an 85% cure rate of childhood leukemia.

Tragically, the rainforests are disappearing at a rate of more than two acres a second because of natural resource exploitation. If the rainforests are destroyed, we lose the source of hundreds of life-saving medicines and the promise of thousands more.

This Public Service Announcement (PSA) features a native botanist and children in the rainforest of Ecuador, and a leukemia patient and his doctor at Children's Hospital in Washington, DC. We are reminded that we are all interconnected, and that saving rainforests, saves lives - including our own.

If it were not for the rainforests, John Paul Emory- the patient featured in the PSA- might not be alive today.   Because of the rainforests' medicinal bounty, John Paul is leukemia-free.

For more information about this PSA and the work we do:
info@saverainforestssavelives.org