Plants And Our Environment

Plants are important to the balance of our nature. Plants provide animals and people with food, shelter, useful tools and products.

Plants are very useful to humans. We eat many different types of plants. Some products are made from plants such as shampoos, rubber, paper and camera film. In some countries, fermented sugar cane is used instead of gasoline.

Animals use plants in many different ways. They eat many fruits and other plants. Many animals use plants for shelter. Plants also provide animals with protection from predators. The destruction of different plants sometimes leads to animals becoming endangered.

The orang utan is an endangered animal. Part of the reason it is endangered because of the shortage of food. The orang utan eats different types of fruit in the rainforest. The destruction of the rainforest causes the shortage of food.



The panda is another endangered species that is partly endangered because of the shortage of food. The panda can eat up to 40 pounds of bamboo each day. The panda is dying out because of the destruction and the dying of the bamboo forests.