Destruction of the Worlds Rainforests

By: Justin Jones

September 14,2005

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

Anaconda& jaguar

Some animals become extinct or they

become endangered because their habitant is destroyed by all the

destruction .

• 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.

• Olympic Rainforests• Rainforests of central

America• Amazon• Rainforests of

Southeast Asia• Congo River Basin

Rainforests• Madagascar

Rainforest

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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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:

• 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.

• 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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