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RAINFORESTS HOW LONG BEFORE THEYRE GONE ?
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RAINFORESTS

• What are Rainforests?
• Where are they found?
• What animal life is found there ?
• Why are they important to us?

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RAINFORESTS WHAT ARE THEY ?

• They are forests that make up about half of the
  Earth's total forested area .

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RAINFORESTSHow they look

• Three layers
• The upper canopy
• level
• Middle layer,
• The forest floor

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RAINFORESTS WHERE ARE THEY FOUND?

• Amazon( Brazil )
• Central America,
• Central Africa
• South East Asia
• Western coast
• ( India)
• Queensland
• ( Australia)

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RAINFORESTS ANIMAL LIFE

• Birds and reptiles occur in each of the forest
  layers.
• Bats, flying foxes, tree frogs , sun bears,
  orang-utans, tigers, jaguars, tapirs, pigs, and
  many species of rodent.

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RAINFORESTS Why are they important to us?

• More plant and animal species than any region.
• Most productive ecosystems in the world.
• Sixty of plants on Earth,
• 90 primates, 40 bird species, and 80
  insects.

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RAINFORESTS PROBLEM ?

• Logging
• Agriculture
• Plantation Agriculture
• Hydroelectric Power(Dams)
• Mining

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RAINFORESTS SLOWLY DYING ?

• 1960-1990 one fifth of tropical forest lost
• 1980-1990, 38 million acres lost.
• 1990-1995 ,34 million acres lost

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RAINFORESTS What can we do?

• Stop cutting trees
• Plant trees that are endemic (native)
• Control pollution
• Dont over-harvest (take too much )
• Protect remaining ecosystems

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RAINFORESTS CONCLUSION

• Rainforests are disappearing faster than we think
• Humans are responsible for forest loss
• We will lose all our rainforests if we do not do
  something