What the importance of forests?
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Hi.\n\nThere's plenty of information over this topic in various search engines.\nhttp://www.google.com/search?q=deforestation+wikipedia&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%2Bdeforestation\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=%2Bdeforestation+wiki\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=+site:dmoz.org+deforestation\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=deforestation\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=+site:answers.com+%2Bdeforestation\nhttp://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=deforestation+forum\nhttp://answers.google.com/answers/search?q=deforestation&qtype=all&num=100&sort=qeprice%3AA%3AR%3Ad1\nhttp://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=deforestation
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It helps with the environment in many different ways such as increasing the annual rainfalls, keeping the environment cool, and decreases the ratio of wind evaporation which saves the atmosphere from becoming dry. This provides immunity to inhabitants of such areas from chest and respiratory diseases. The tree helps in stabilizing canal banks and preventing soil erosions
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hey, go to www.Wikipedia.com   type in "Renewable Resources of the Rainforest"  it will give u thousands of things to pick from. Wikipedia is the best for homework and research. Good Luck.
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The pulp of this fast growing trees is use for making high quality paper.The demand for paper is growing and demand is falling short.Henceforth you have a planting and deforesting programme to sustain the paper industry
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Plants play a vital role in our living.\nThey are the very source of Oxygen that make life possible.\n"Plant a Tree to Save a Life."\nIf you protect a tree, it will protect you.
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because if we use up and burn up all that carbon (wood), it will further global warming.\n\nbecause our atmosphere needs the oxygen it produces. and trees fight air pollution.\n\nbecause the people who live there depend upon the forest for their livelihoods.\n\nbecause it has more intrinsic value if it is there instead of a clearcut.\n\nbecause there are many plants in the forest that can be used to make drugs to cure diseases, like a cure for cancer.\n\nbecause without the ecosystem, all kinds of animals and plants will go extinct. \n\nbecause it is morally wrong.
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interaction of man with the environment is definitely essential for his survival.but the important thing is  not to exploit it.man should somewhere become satisfied and draw the line.man's insatiable quest for everything is leading to the exploitation of the environment and ultimately environmental pollution.
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When done right, selective logging helps to open the forest up and let more botanical species thrive.\n\nBy halting it, you run the risk of increased, and more dangerous fires, such as those seen n recent times in the western USA.  \n\nEither way you look at it, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't
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Because trees and plants take in carbon dioxide and put out oxygen.
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A quiet forest is my retreat.  I love trees.  I love to be surrounded by trees.\nThe air is cleaner and I can breath.  There is a place I like to go to where\nI am all alone.  It seems like it boosts my energy level.  Trees and birds\nare what I need.
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Check Futuro Forestal website. I´m sure they can help you!
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Rainforests are extremely important in the ecology of the Earth. The plants of the rainforest generate much of the Earth's oxygen. These plants are also very important to people in other ways; many are used in new drugs that fight disease and illness. Scientists divide the rainforest into strata (zones) based on the living environment. Starting at the top, the strata are: \nEMERGENTS: Giant trees that are much higher than the average canopy height. It houses many birds and insects. \nCANOPY: The upper parts of the trees. This leafy environment is full of life in a tropical rainforest and includes: insects, birds, reptiles, mammals, and more. \nUNDERSTORY: A dark, cool environment under the leaves but over the ground. \nFOREST FLOOR: Teeming with animal life, especially insects. The largest animals in the rainforest generally live here. \nIt is almost always raining in a rainforest. Rainforests get over 80 inches (2 m) of rain each year. This is about 1 1/2 inches (3.8 cm) of rain each week. \n\nThe rain is more evenly distributed throughout the year in a tropical rainforest (even though there is a little seasonality). In a temperate rainforest, there are wet and dry seasons. During the "dry" season, coastal fog supplies abundant moisture to the forest. \n\nThe temperature in a rainforest never freezes and never gets very hot. The range of temperature in a tropical rainforest is usually between 75° F and 80° F (24-27° C). Temperate rainforests rarely freeze or get over 80° F (27° C). \nThere are many indigenous groups of people who have live in the tropical rainforests. Many of these groups, like the Yanomamo tribe of the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and southern Venezuela, have lived in scattered villages in the rainforests for hundreds or thousands of years. These tribes get their food, clothing, and housing mainly from materials they obtain in the forests. \n\nForest people are mostly hunter-gatherers; they get their food by hunting for meat (and fishing for fish) and gathering edible plants, like starchy roots and fruit. Many also have small gardens in cleared areas of the forest. Since the soil in the rainforest is so poor, the garden areas must be moved after just a few years, and another part of the forest is cleared. \n\nMost indigenous populations are declining. There are many reasons for this. Their primary problems are disease (like smallpox and measles, which were inadvertently introduced by Europeans) and governmental land seizure.\nTropical rainforests cover about 7% of the Earth's surface and are VERY important to the Earth's ecosystem. The rainforests recycle and clean water. Tropical rainforest trees and plants also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in their roots, stems, leaves, and branches. Rainforests affect the greenhouse effect, which traps heat inside the Earth's atmosphere. \nSome of the foods that were originally from rainforests around the world include cashew nuts, Brazil nuts, Macadamia nuts, bananas, plantains, pineapple, cucumber, cocoa (chocolate), coffee, tea, avocados, papaya, guava, mango, cassava (a starchy root), tapioca, yams, sweet potato, okra, cinnamon, vanilla, nutmeg, mace, ginger, cayenne pepper, cloves, oranges, grapefruit, lemons, limes, passion fruit, peanuts, rice, sugar cane, and coconuts (mostly from coastal areas). \n\n\nThe Wealth of the Rainforests \n\n\nThe Amazon Rainforest covers over a billion acres, encompassing areas in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and the Eastern Andean region of Ecuador and Peru. If Amazonia were a country, it would be the ninth largest in the world. \n\nThe Amazon Rainforest has been described as the "Lungs of our Planet" because it provides the essential environmental world service of continuously recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. More than 20 percent of the world oxygen is produced in the Amazon Rainforest. \n\nMore than half of the world's estimated 10 million species of plants,
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Characteristics\nRainforests are characterized by high rainfall, with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 2,000 mm (about 78 inches or 2 meters) and 1700 mm (about 67 inches). The soil can be poor because high rainfall tends to leach out soluble nutrients.\n\nRain forests are home to two-thirds of all the living animal and plant species on the planet. It has been estimated that many hundreds of millions of new species of plants, insects, and microorganisms are still undiscovered and as yet unnamed by science. Tropical rain forests are called the "jewel of the earth", the "Earth's lungs", and the "world's largest pharmacy" because of the large amount of natural medicines discovered there.\n\nDespite the growth of flora in a rainforest, the actual quality of the soil is quite poor. Oxisols, infertile, and deeply weathered, have developed on the ancient Gondwanan shields. Rapid bacterial decay prevents the accumulation of humus. The concentration of iron and aluminium oxides by the laterization process gives the oxisols a bright red color and sometimes produces minable deposits (e.g. bauxite). On younger substrates, especially of volcanic origin, tropical soils may be quite fertile.\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/RAINFOREST
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http://rainforest.care2.com/\n\nhttp://www.therainforestsite.com/\n\nhttp://www.thenonprofits.com/
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rainforests contain a large portion of flora and fauna species. Some have yet to be discovered. Think of rainforests as the most biodiverse areas of the world. Now consider that 95% of our medicines are derived from plants, and you can see that rainforests are essential to a biodiverse planet such as  earth. Also, there are some people still living in rainforests, so it would be natural for them to place importance on their food, shelter and way of life.
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A certain amount of our oxygen comes from trees.  One article claims that 70% comes from the trees in the rainforest.  Of course a conflicting article says that 30% of our oxygen comes from trees.  I'd be interested to know the truth.  (I believe the truth is that most of our oxygen comes from ocean plants.)  The fact is, though, that oxygen comes to us through photosynthesis.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_cycle  Trees are one source of the oxygen we breathe on this planet.   Bacteria, algae, and all other plants also contribute.\n\nThere are a few things that come to my mind when discussing the preservation of the world's forests.  Trees are a renewable resource.  If harvested responsibly, the older and unhealthy trees are taken, and the younger, healthier trees are left to grow and reseed the forest.  In the long run, you end up with healthier forests that continue producing trees at a sustainable rate.\n\nWhen developing an area, land may be cleared of trees and forests may be destroyed.  In that case, the forest will not reseed and grow back.  That part of the forest is gone.  Many areas have laws about the size of a piece of land that one can clear-cut, although some do not.  There are no laws providing for the contribution of trees to another piece of land as a way to reclaim the forest lost to development.\n\nIn the case of coffee growers, etc, land is clear-cut to make fields for growing the more lucrative crops.  While no one can really blame anyone for wanting to make money, I believe this type of deforestation is destroying the rainforests.  As long as individuals are allowed to own land, there will be arguments about how much authority the private citizen has over land use.\n\nSome forests are lost naturally to fire.\n\nThere are small things that a person can do to help slow the deforestation process.  First, manage the land that is in your care well.  If you own land, be aware of the health of your trees.  Are you considering logging off your back forty?   Be responsible.  Choose a responsible forester and loggers that respect the remaining trees.  Smaller logging operations may be more apt to manage the project with less damage to the trees that are to be left.  Remember, the logger makes money off your trees, too.  Be sure you pay attention to the project and understand what is being cut.  In many cases, a forest can be logged again in 10 years.\n\nIf you are developing an area for a house lot, carefully consider what it is that you really wish to cut?  Do you really want to clear all ten acres?  Would you have just as beautiful a view and maybe a prettier landscape if you leave the nicer hardwoods?  Remember the animals that a small softwood cluster would attract.  Think about the shade that trees provide and the colors of the autumn foliage just before winter covers that land.  Make your choices wisely, and remember the benefit of the trees to the rest of the world -- even those who will never see your lovely new home.\n\nIn the case development by business, support those business that care for the land.   If you spend your money in support of responsible businesses, if everyone does, then it will be more lucrative for that business to continue to be responsible.  If it appears over the course of doing business that no one cares, the people operating the business may decide it isn't worth the effort.  Responsibility has rewards, but it also has a price.  Support responsible businesses.\n\nLikewise, consider the rainforest.  If you are concerned with the deforestation of the rainforest, as we all should be, consider giving up some of the products that you enjoy that have been harvested from land that was once rainforest.  Although that forest is already gone, if there isn't demand for those products, if consumption falls, that act could lessen the "need" to cut more forests.  Seriously, I drink a lot of coffee and continue to do so.  I'm not sure what sort of a dent this on
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1 Use of forests for timber.\n\n2 Use of forests for fuel (fires etc)\n\n3 Clearing land for agricluture.\n\n4 Climatic change.\n\n5 Desease and pests, introduced and otherwise.