Saving the rainforest?
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Slash and burn allows people to take temporary profit from the rainforest but at the sacrifice of thousands of years of evolution and natural development.  There have probably been hundreds of cures for cancer that will never have a chance because those species that had it are gone.\n\nGoing, going, gone.\n\nIf the rich of the world would help the poor they wouldn't need to slash and burn the forests.
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Hello Friend! \n To protect our world, environmental education is necessary.
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Not a chance.  Well, there is a chance, but it would involve completely wiping humans off the face of the earth.  And that begs the question, if a tree falls in the forest but no one is around to see it, does it make a sound?  So we're back to - not a chance.\n\nI'm afraid the concept is nothing more than a Miss America platform.
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Tropical and temperate rain forests have been subjected to heavy logging and agricultural clearance throughout the 20th century and the area covered by rainforests around the world is rapidly shrinking. It is estimated that the rainforest was reduced by about 58,000 km² annually in the 1990s. Rainforests used to cover 14% of the Earth's surface. This percentage is now down to 6% and it is estimated by some that the remaining natural rainforests could disappear within 40 years (mid-21st century). Biologists have estimated that large numbers of species are being driven to extinction, possibly more than 50,000 a year, due to the removal of habitat with destruction of the rain forests. Protection and regeneration of the rainforests is a key goal of many environmental charities and organisations, including EcologyFund and the Nature Conservancy.
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Rainforests act as 'carbon sinks' basically mopping up the carbon expelled by the world, they convert carbon dioxide into glucose and bulk within the trees, lowering the pace of global warming.\n\nIf we cut down the forest we release that carbon dioxide into the atmosphere (it is estimated that 1/8 of all carbon dioxide emissions come from the burning of Tropical rainforests) and an are the size of Wales is cut down every year. its preservation and hopeful expansion is something that the world needs to have as a high concern\n\nhope that helps
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Hi Danieller, I have put together all the information on this topic for you, so if you decide to go with it, all the research is done.\n\nThe Amazon Rainforest\n\nHelp with Rainforest School Reports\n\nhttp://www.rain-tree.com/schoolreports.htm\n\nhttp://www.extremescience.com/AmazonRiver.htm\n\nThe Amazon Rainforest\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A925913\n\nThe Amazon region has a great forest that presents the largest biodiversity of the world. It is a plane equatorial area, covering 5.5 million square kilometers, that corresponds to more than half of the European continent.\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/20248/\n\nThis Unit Lesson is inspired by the following facts :\n\nhttp://earthrenewal.org/rainless.htm\n\nThe Disappearing Rainforests\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\nhttp://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm\n\nhttp://www.eduweb.com/amazon.html\n\nhttp://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Regions/South_America/Brazil/\n\nhttp://www.brazadv.com/brazil_tours/amazon_rainforest.asp\n\nWorld: Americas\n \nAmazon rainforest finds unlikely guardian\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/82957.stm\n\nThe expansion of Brazil's soya market is fuelling an emerging cycle of deforestation. Over three-quarters of a million hectares of soya was planted within the Amazon deforestation belt by the end of 2001.\n\nhttp://weblog.greenpeace.org/amazon/\n\nAn area the size of Eire lost since 2003 \n\nIllegal logging and cattle ranching are still encroaching on the Amazon rainforest, but increasingly the large-scale cultivation of soya is to blame for the destruction. And it's not just the forest that suffers. Soya farmers often force indigenous peoples off their land before bringing in the bulldozers to clear and then burn the forest. The use of slaves to clear the land has also been reported.\n\nhttp://www.greenpeace.org.uk/forests/forests.cfm?ucidparam=20060307133001&CFID=4989237&CFTOKEN=73924303\n\nAmazon 'stealth' logging revealed\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4362760.stm\n\nDemand for Brazilian beef threatens rainforest\n\nhttp://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=readnews&itemid=1314&language=1\n\nAn acre of Brazilian rainforest is destroyed every nine seconds. \nIn Brazil there have been 90 distinct indigenous cultures that have become extinct this century. \n\nhttp://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/cbio/brazil.html\n\nThreats and Solutions\n\nhttp://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/forests/the-amazon-rainforest/threats-and-solutions\n\nAmazon Photos\n\nhttp://www.leslietaylor.net/gallery/gallery.htm\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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I watched a show on the history channel last night and it talked about "darkening" From what I heard it still balances nature. The program said without "darkening" the "global warming" rate would increase 5-10 fold. The whole concept is interesting but I'd need to hear more.\n\nJason
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Global warming.... It is a long term problem that is not going away, it affects the whole planet and all forms of life, most of the other problems mentioned above affect mainly the selfish human populous.\n\nWhat can you do?....\n\nStop buying products with palm oil is a good start (most rain forest is cleared for palm oil plantations)\n\nTurn off the lights you are not using\n\nDon't leave your PC on all day\n\nDon't leave things on standby (almost the same as leaving a light on)\n\nTry not to use your car quite so much\n\nSome informative and useful sites\n\nhttp://www.mec.ca/Apps/ecoCalc/ecoCalc.jsp;jsessionid=G1TlbhpQxHXzQ0wym1V5DcwxpwC1SGG7QvGYYR1XMsfSJJLk8qhK!-790721544?page=ecofootprint&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302881659&bmUID=1144345509405\nhttp://www.earthday.net/Footprint/index.asp\nhttp://resources.yesican-science.ca/energy_flow/energy_menu.html\nhttp://www.footprintbc.com/
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yup! i agree with u....... \nthe  remedy is to atleast plant more trees and try not to mess up with mother nature in the name of developments.... \ndevelopments are good......... but who will be there to utilise it? \n\nwe are doing lot of bad than good to mother earth.... we need to start now.........
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a short account of environmental happenings that are endangering the blue and some possible solutions\n\nthese are some Mega threats that endanger the planet \n\nExstinction,over population,deforrestation,\nexcess carbon emissions,desertification(land...\nbad farming practises(landloss),\nerosian(landloss),watershortag...\nglobal warming,rising seas(landloss).\n\nEXSTINCTION\n\nwe harvest fish faster than they can reproduce,\nAnd habitat destruction,climatic change,\nexpanding populations,overexploitation,\ndeforrestation,desertification...\npolution are responsible for mayor looses \nof both flora and fauna,many for ever.\nwe are now witness to the first mass extinction\nsince the day of the dinosaurs.\nspecies are being lost every hour.\n\nOVERPOPULATION\nthe world population has doubled in the last 50 years \nthe fastest increase ever,since we became homosapian\n\neach year farmers have to grow food \nfor an extra 70 million people,\nmany of whom are taking the forrests place.\n\nDEFORRESTATION \nif it continues ,is that we could end up looking like Mars.Without an atmosphere ,without water,without air,\nwith out life\n\nthe rain forrest and all other forests are getting smaller every day.\nespecially in south America and Mexico.\nvaluable species of plants become lost \nand countles animals are killed into extinction.\n\nthe jungle of Lacadona one of\nthe richest environmental areas of Mexico\nwhich produces 70 %of the countries water,\nis home to thousands of rare species of flora and fauna\nis loosing hundred of hectares daily\n(2 millions hectares per anum)\ndespite nationwide campains on all tv and radio stations.\nnothing can stop the destruction,\nthe same thing is happening in the Amazon regions ,\nand probably in Asia as well,\nand it is also the case in Borneo\n\nthe forrests make most of the water that we can drink \nor use for agriculture(sweet water) \nsome is condensed from the sea but that reaches only the coastel aereas.\nthe bulk ,comes from the forests ,\nand the rivers come from the rainfall\nwhich comes from the trees.\nthe trees with precipitation,\nfeed the rivers when it is not raining\nand keep them running all year round.\n\nIf we kill all the trees,we kill the rivers .\nwe kill the rain. we kill us.\nthe trees also absorb the heat in the day \nand heat up the place in the night ,\nso they keep the temperature confortable to live in.\ntrees evaporate a mist which ,which protects us from the strong rays of the sun \n\nin the dessert the nights are freezing cold \nand during the days you burn up.\n\nCARBON EMISIONS\nthe world is producing more carbon monoxide\nthan the system can accomodate\nthe trees absorb carbon emisions ,\nwhich is poison to us and they leave the oxygen\nwhich we need to breathe.\nin the autemn the colder seas absorb carbon emisions\nthat is produced by rotting flora .\nand in the spring newly growing biomass \nutilises the carbon that is released by the warmer waters\n\nDESERTIFICATION\n\nbecause of bad agricultural practises \nand the resulting land loss \nfarmers are now cultivating highly erodable lands\nand deforresting vast areas\nthe sahara is growing by 7 kilometres every day.\n\ntwo major desserts in northern china \nare growing together making one giant dessert, \ncausing dust storms making thousands of people refugese.\nthe planet is drying out at an alarming rate.\n\nin the days of the dinasaurs this planet was under an aquiferus manta ,a mist that covered the entire earth \nand there were no desserts.\nCount how many there are today,and all of them are as a result of mans actions.\nthe sahara used to be forrests\narabia ,irak ,iran used to be fertile lands in biblical times\nGhengas Kahn burned all the forrests \nand filled the wellS with water and \nso turning vast lands into dessert.\nBAD FARMING\n\nBad agricultural practises is turning \nvast teritories into desserts ,because of \nover grazing ,the exessive pumping of carbon aquifiers. \nthe surface aquifiers alrea
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"Are we destroying the earth with technology or is the earth doing business as usual"\nI suggest you track the changes scientists have found in the entire history of the earth, warming, freezing, wet and even effects of smoke from Krakatoa. Then compare what is happening now with pollution and the depletion of the ozone layer and ask the readers to make their own conclusion.
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there a re some people that try to reduce what they spend in paper, etc ( my school takes all projects, homework, etc, via email, there is almost nothing that is written or printed in paper, in an  effort to save paper)\nother people try to re cycle the paper that they use, but there are many legislation's in Colombia, Peru, and Brazil that are the countries that have most of the Amazon Rain forest. \nthis include the companies that chop down the trees have to plant  trees also, so that even though trees are being cut down, other trees are also growing.
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We have no statistics to back that up.  I doubt that anyone went into the jungle to count any other species dying from the disease.  The really scary part is that it comes in waves, and dies out on its own.
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Eat more beans, and save the world!!\n\nThe real answer is below.
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I am sure the term "environmentalism" does not go back that far.  As to people who were concerned about their environment, I expect most farmers were, and certainly people who were responsible for forests.  It did not become an academic discipline to be taken seriously until the time of Rachael Carson.  "Conservation" was a term used earlier, and the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, among others, took that seriously.
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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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I believe that we should stop and preserve more for wildlife. I LOVE animals with everything I own. They are so kool!!! So maybe someone should start a petition or start something to stop the killing of wildlife and habitats!!!!