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RAINFORESTS : HOW LONG BEFORE THEY’RE

GONE ?

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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RAINFORESTS:How they look

Three layers :

* The upper canopy

level * Middle layer, * The forest

floor

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 Don’t 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

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