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Title: Deforestation


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Deforestation
  • By Gerald Weimer, Michael Olvera, Je Yeun Min,
    and Latavia Allen

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Deforestation
  • clear (an area) of forests or trees.

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UGANDA
  • -3.9 of total forest ANNUALY with only 12.4 of
    the Rainforest LEFT

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Brazil
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Borneo Timeline
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The World
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CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION
  • Agriculture and Cattle-Raising
  • Dams
  • Buildings/ Mega projects
  • Mining Oil and Gas

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CATTLE
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Why Cattle?
  • Food companies such as McDonald's uses forests
    to find more space to raise cattle and crops. The
    more land they clear, the more profit.

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  • Costa Rica, which is one of the countries with
    the worse deforestation rate in the world, is
    home to millions of cattle

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  • Cattle pasture land in Honduras takes up over 40
    percent of the country's fertile land.

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Dams
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  • Dams are built to change water flows. Forests are
    cleared to make man made irrigation leading
    towards more inhabited regions.

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Building and Construction
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Forest are not only being cut for building
material, but for extra space as well.
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Oil Mining
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  • In places such as Canada and Middle America
    (Costa Rico, Venezuela, Panama) forest are
    cleared in spots that are suspected of holding
    oil underground.

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EFFECTS
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Temperature Increase
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Animal Extinction
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Other Effects
  • Drain on national resources
  • Landslides and floods
  • Unworkable Soil

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What Can We Do?
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Tips
  • - Reforestation
  • - Rotate Crops
  • - Support Farmers From States
  • - Recycle Paper

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  • Organizations such as these focus on preserving
    forest habitats.
  • Community Forestry International
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • World Wide Fund for Nature
  • Conservation International
  • African Conservation Foundation
  • Greenpeace

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MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!
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