There are many ways in which the rainforest is exploited. Many of these ways are damaging to the environment.
Rubber tapping causes almost no damage to the rainforest. Rubber tapping takes the natural latex from the tree by scraping grooves into the surface of the tree. The natural latex then falls into a cup, and is removed and processed to make the rubber. Rubber trees are quite rare - in a thirty square kilometre area, with 20,000 trees, there may be just sixty rubber trees.
Timber logging causes a lot of damage to the rainforest. Timber logging is very popular as a mahogany tree can…
