Amazon Rainforest Chavela Montano, Allison Maestas University of Phoenix Science 265 The Amazon Rainforest is the largest rainforest in the world covering over 1.4 billion acres. The Amazon Rainforest is so large it spreads across a few countries; these countries include Brazil, Peru, Venezuela and Columbia, just to name a few. The Amazon Rainforest is home to 10% of the world’s wildlife, and 20% of the world’s bird population. The Amazon Rainforest is the world’s largest producer
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Internet assignment #1 1) Deforestation is happening in the rainforest through the time period covered by the satellite images of Rondonia, Brazil. Commercial logging is the number one cause of deforestation. Logging happens on the area in a feather pattern so loggers can travel easier and ship the product out. For the People around the area after the area has been logged use the area as cropland. This further clears the surrounding area and prolongs the deforestation. This area is now susceptible
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1) Reduce the optimal harvesting period 2) Increase clear cutting 3) Encourage timber harvesting to pay off debts 4) Reduce the mean annual increment 5) Increase ecological damages to forests 5. What is the main cause of global tropical deforestation? 1) Slash-and-burn agriculture 2) Timber harvesting for export 3) Forest clearing for commercial ranches 4) Forest cutting for pulp 5) Forest clearing to build cities 6. How does total forested area tend to change as human populations
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Costa Rica’s dry tropical forests have been under siege since 2014 from loggers looking to cash in on skyrocketing demand for precious hardwoods, especially cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa), also known as tropical rosewood. The illegal logging of cocobolo and other precious hardwoods threatens Costa Rica’s famous but understaffed national parks as loggers look to protected areas as the last untapped source of valuable lumber for export. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
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Casper PhD, in her book Forests, foresting had a profound effect upon the nation: “… the massive deforestation in America moved inland. In the early 1900’s, about 500 million board feet of redwoods were harvested each year. Then, from 1947 to 1958, this rate rose to a billion…” (81). During the huge economic boom of the mid-twentieth century, America began experiencing unprecedented increases in deforestation. Casper also reports “much of America’s old growth forests have been cut down”(81). Not only
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Air pollution caused by unlawful burning of forests is a yearly issue. The illegal deforestation across Indonesia has covered much of South-East Asia – particularly Singapore, Malaysia, as well as parts of Philippines and Thailand, in an acrid haze, resulting to one of the most severe regional shutdown in years. According to the scientists, the 2015 pollution could surpass the one in 1997 - when it had created an environmental tragedy that cost about US$9 billion in damage. The economic cost
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affected in one way or another. There are currently some threats to the Amazon rainforest, mainly being deforestation, overhunting and overfishing. If these activities are done in abundance, then it is not possible for people to achieve a reasonable standard of living in the future. So measures must be taken to sustainably develop the Amazon biome, which I will elaborate on later. Deforestation is definitely the biggest threat to the rainforest – 13% of the original forest has been cleared, which
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future generations may need some of these resources too. “We need to find a sustainable development because if it continues at the rate it's going countries are going to become economic poor. Rural areas depend on the rainforest for survival. Deforestation makes it very hard for the farmers to feed their families or communities”. Based on this, we must conclude to protect unknown species if this continues at this rate animals start dying off and farming becomes very hard. “USE it or lose it. The
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Ravi Vallabh SCI 204 10/28/15 iLab1: Deforestation 1. Discuss 5 products that come from tropical rain forests. a. Chocolate originates from the cacao plant, which grows in Central and South America. Its cultivation is a forest-friendly source of income for those living in the Amazon. (Larsson) b. Moisturizer has ingredients that originate in the Amazon. These ingredients include the Brazil nut and coconut oil. (Larsson) c. Medicine’s ingredients can come from the Amazon and
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emission of excessive greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide from human industrial, residential and transportation sources into the earth’s atmosphere, exploding population causing a greater need for ever scarcer resources, and finally producing deforestation, pollution and a catastrophic loss of biodiversity of plants and animals. “We are dumping so much carbon dioxide into the Earth’s environment that we have literally changed the relationship between the Earth and the Sun.” (Gore, p.10) Scientific
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