Destruction of the Worlds Rainforests

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Destruction of the Worlds Rainforests

• By Justin Jones
• September 14,2005

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how could we help prevent the destruction

• One could help prevent destruction by not buying
  furniture products made from rosewood, mahogany,
  ebony, and teakwood, because they most likely
  came from the rainforests.

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Cause Of Destruction

• The cause of the rainforests destruction is that
  the global population has tripled this century
  and will continue to grow for the next 50 years
  particularly in developed countries.

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How We Are Effected

• We are effected by the destruction of the rain
  forests.
• In that we cant look at their beauty. the cutting
  and destruction of the forests also changes Aledo
  or reflectivity of the Earths surface.

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Some Animals That Live In The Rainforests

• Anaconda jaguar

• Gorilla
• Tigers
• Iguanas
• Anaconda
• Jaguar
• Bats
• Monkeys
• Parrot

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How animals are affected

• Some animals become extinct or they become
  endangered because their habitant is destroyed by
  all the destruction .

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Destruction In The Amazon

• The environment ministry said 26,000 sq km of
  forest were chopped down in the 12 months prior
  to August 2004.
• The figure is the second highest on record, 6
  higher than the previous 12 months.

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The Major Rainforests

• Olympic Rainforests
• Rainforests of central America
• Amazon
• Rainforests of Southeast Asia
• Congo River Basin Rainforests
• Madagascar Rainforest

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How is Destruction Affecting The Earths Climate

• The eradication of the Amazon Rainforest and
  Rainforests around the world are wreaking havoc
  on the climate of our Earth.  The Amazon is like
  a giant heat bump that sends energy and moisture
  from the tropics into the cooler high latitudes
  it produces climate that we can live in.

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Are there People Living In The rainforests

• We often overlook the millions of people that
  live in the rain forests.  Did you know that
  there are about 50,000,000 tribal people living
  in world's rainforests? 
• These people depend on the forests for their
  food and shelter. 
• As we cut more and more trees and destroy more
  and more of the forests, we are also killing
  people. 
• Many native tribes have been exterminated already
  because their governments failed to protect them
  from logging companies, the mining companies and
  the slash and burn farmers

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How are people from different cultrues affected

• The destruction of the World's Rainforests
  displaces and destroys the cultures of indigenous
  people who inhabit them. Ways of life that have
  existed for eons are totally destroyed, disrupted
  and up routed.
• The cultures we are losing are irreplaceable. In
  1500 almost 9 million indigenous people inhabited
  the Brazilian Rainforest. Now less than 200,000
  remain.

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Will The Destruction Ever Stop

• The most important piece of Rainforests
  Destruction information to understand is this
• If no action is taken, between 2012 and 2016 the
  land area of virgin Rainforests will go below the
  critical built-in natural safeguard threshold
  providence of 10.
• virgin Rainforests area with its 50 species
  remaining. So for now no the destruction will not
  stop

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Why Do People Destroy The Rainforests

• There is a short answer it's because of money.
  
• People cut down the trees, sell the wood and used
  the land for sugar plantations or building dams
  on forest rivers.

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How Much Is the Rainforests Worth

• Rainforests are worth more acre by acre left
  standing then used for logging, pasture, or
  mining. The tropical rainforest has much more to
  offer
• economically then just for logging, mining and
  land-use. A large percentage, if not most, of
  the medicinal industry has been derived from
  various tropical plants.
• The agricultural industry, also sustained by the
  rainforests, allows for the creation of improved
  crops and pest controllers through the vast
  genetic diversity supplied.
• Numerous materials that create a immense majority
  of the products we enjoy originated from these
  tropical areas.

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Organozations That Have Taken Over The Rainforests

• Most rainforests are cleared by chainsaws,
  bulldozers and fires for its timber value and
  then are followed by farming and ranching
  operations, even by world giants like Mitsubishi
  Corporation, Georgia Pacific, Texaco and Unocal.

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Why Save The Rainforests

• rainforest is home to over fifty percent of all
  plants and animals on earth.
• It is the earth's living lungs it breathes in
  carbon dioxide and breathes out oxygen.
• Some rainforests are an unexplored frontier, with
  all kinds of new animals and even new tribes of
  people.
• The National Wildlife Federation in 1993 listed
  ten reasons why we should save the rainforests

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Ten Reasons Why We Should Save The Rainforests

• People have no right to destroy the rainforests
  for their own purposes.
• Destroying the forests may change the world's
  weather patterns.
• The loss of the forests is causing serious
  environmental problems such as soil erosion and
  water pollution.
• Wood products on which the rest of the world
  depends may soon become scarce and more
  expensive.
• Many migrating birds common in North America
  depend on rainforest habitats loss of the
  rainforest may affect these species.
• Cultures of the forests are losing their native
  lands. They have a right to live where and how
  they want.
• There are many rainforest plants and animals that
  could help scientists develop new crops,
  medicines, and other products.
• The strange, exotic and unique species found in
  rainforests are a source of inspiration for many
  people.   
• The forests contain more than 50 of all plant
  and animals species in the world. Destroying the
  forests will destroy these species forever.
• There is still so much to discover within the
  rainforest, even a possible cure for cancer.  We
  can't destroy what nature has given to us.

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Intreasting facts About The Rainforests

• An area of rainforest is the size of a football
  field
• Giant bamboo plants can grow 9in in a day
• The trees in the rainforests are so densely
  packed that rain falling on the canopy can take
  10 min to reach the ground
• In the moist rainforests of South America,
  sloth's move so slowly that algae are able to
  grow in their fur.

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My Resources

• http//www.google.com
• http//search.msn.com/results.aspx?qrainforest
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• http//search.msn.com/results.aspx?qamazonrainfo
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• http//auto.search.msn.com/response.asp?MTwhysav
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