The Amazon rain forest is the world's greatest natural resource - the most powerful and bio-actively diverse natural phenomenon on the planet. However, the rain forests are being destroyed due to the harvesting of the unsustainable resources such as timber for agriculture and cattle grazing and for subsistence cropping by the inhabitants of the forest.

Sustainable harvesting of these resources is of great value because they provide long-term profits and reliable income for the native population. Entire communities and indigenous tribes earn 5 to 10 times more money harvesting medicinal plants then they can earn by dropping down the forest for subsistence crops.

The Amazon rain forest is the richest biological incubator in the planet. Its plants offer a variety of amazing medicinal purposes. The forest also awaits the discovery of a myriad of possibilities of chemical invention that will yield innumerable cures for diseases that remain as of today untreated.

Unfortunately, experts estimate that at the current rate of destruction we are losing many species of plants and animals everyday. How many opportunities to save lives via medicinal discoveries have we already lost?