Three groups of things suffer as the rainforest is destroyed: the plants, the animals and the world, for cutting down the rainforest is part of the cause of global warming.
Many people understand that it is important to keep the forest, as we are guardians of the world and we must be responsible. But before we tell other people what to do with their countries, just think how much of our own we are destroying for roads and houses. Would we stop building in the UK tomorrow just to save our own countryside?