what are people doing to save the enviorment and rain forests?
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Today I threw one less cocobolo log in the fireplace. I like to think that made a difference.
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Develop ways that the people who live there can earn a livelihood without damage to the forest.  Ways where they work to protect the forest and yet earn a living.
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You can study this topic for an entire semester in a college class!  I did, and it cannot be explained in a few words.  \n\nWhat people are doing is changing the face of the earth and in the process we are destroying the places other creatures and plants live.  In our mad pursuit of things and riches and greed, we do whatever we want to get our way.\n\nIndustries make garbage, some of it is lethal, some is liquid.... guess where many liquids go?  Into streams. In my country, the USA, there are laws against such waste going into streams, but guess what?  Many companies dump their waste anyway because it's quick and easy.  Multiply this dumping around the world....\n\nDo you, as a citizen, consider how you pollute just by what you have in your own house?  \n\nNow, tying all of the above into marine ecosystems:   Streams run down hill. Ultimately, pollutants wind up in the oceans.  Businesses along coastlines often dump their wastes directly into the ocean.   \n\nIn our mindless pursuit of material possessions, we import a massive amount of material from poor nations where labor is cheap and pollution is rampant (few or no environmental protection laws in many poor nations).  The goods come via the ocean on huge, polluting ships. Those ships flush their sewage into the sea. They enter harbors and dump their wastes and that waste carries all sorts of things in it.  Some of that waste includes little sea living organisms that are native to waters halfway around the world, and those organisms start interfering with the new location where they got dumped.\n\nOver fishing?  Catch too many fish and the numbers decline. Not enough mama fish to lay eggs. Polluted waters make breeding more difficult.  Most fish live in shallow waters, and shallow waters are usually near land. People pollute the waters where they live... so we harvest the fish, we pollute the water, and the fish can't reproduce fast enough.\n\nAdd to the mix oil... oil spills, and runoff, and all the many things we make from petroleum... \n\nEarth is one big organism, and all of it's parts work together. People think to rule the earth and change it and ultimately, we most likely will kill the earth and most of it's creatures from our pursuit of things and our lack of controlling the horribly toxic wastes our factories make.
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Try looking up websites for enviromental groups.  They may have some good ideas for you.
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PEOPLE AND LACK OF CARING ABOUT OUR ENVIORMENT
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Deforestation is the loss or continual degradation of forest habitat due to either natural or human related causes. Agriculture, urban sprawl, unsustainable forestry practices, mining, and petroleum exploration all contribute to human caused deforestation. Natural deforestation can be linked to tsunamis, forest fires, volcanic eruptions, glaciation and desertification. The effects of human related deforestation can be mitigated through environmentally sustainable practices that reduce permanent destruction of forests or even act to preserve and rehabilitate disrupted forestland.
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these are some Mega threats that endanger the planet and some solutions\n\nover population,erosian,over pumping of carbon aquifiers(deep wells)\ndesertification,rising seas,land loss,deforrestation.excess carbon emissions,mass extinction of species and global warming.\n\nDEFORRESTATION if it continues ,is that we could end up looking like Mars.Without an atmosphere ,without water,without air,with out life\n\nthe forrests make most of the water that we can drink or use for plant growth(sweet water) \nsome is condensed from the sea but that reaches only the coastel aereas .\nthe bulk ,comes from the forests ,and the rivers come from the rainfall which comes from the trees ,\nand the trees with precipitation,feed the rivers when it is not raining and keep them running all year round.\n\nIf we kill all the trees,we kill the rivers .we kill the rain. we kill us.\nthe trees also absorb the heat in the day and heat up the place in the night ,so they keep the temperature confertable to live in.\n\nin the dessert the nights are freezing cold and during the days you burn up\n\nCARBON MONOXIDE\nthe trees absorb carbon emisions ,which is poison to us and they produce oxygen which we need to breathe.\n\nso in short the trees produce the air that we need to breathe.\nthey also produce wood which is usefull and a wide range of food such as fruits\n\ndeforestation must be stopped before desertification goes out of control and consumes the planet.\n\nDESERTIFICATION\nthe sahara is growing by 7 kilometres every day.\ntwo major desserts in northern china are growing together making one giant dessert and,causing dust storms so making thousands of people refugeese\n\nthe trees evaporate a mist which ,which protects us from the strong rays of the sun .\n\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 ,and 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 here and filled the well with water and so turning vast lands into dessert.\n\nBad agricultural practises is turning vast teritories into desserts ,because of over grazing and the exessive pumping of carbon aquifiers ,the surface aquifiers already having been depleted.\nAnd the use of fertilisers and heavy machinery that compacts the ground which raises the salt in the soil.\nModern agriculture today is doing the same as ghengas kahn but in much bigger territories.\n\nAnd because agricultural lands are lost, farmers are forced to cultivate highly erodable lands, to keep up with the growing demand for food.an extra 70 million people each year and this is increasing\nthe world population has doubled in the last 50 years the fasted increase ever since the first homo sapian.\n\nEROSION\nsoil erosion is almost always as a result of human intervention.\nthe trees are cut down and these trees existed to provide a cover against the rays of the sun which now dries out the soil ,and the wind can than easily blow away the dust that is formed ,------this is wind erosian\n\nbecause the trees are no longer there, whose roots bound the soil together ,and because their canapies of foilidge no longer exist the rain now has easy acces to the unprotected ,now dry surface and the rain waters wash away the top soils ,------this is water erosian\n\nfarmers plow large plots of land to plant maize or wheat or what ever and as happened in the 20s in the USA,they plowed in straight lines.when the winds came they blew alonfg the straight lines and picking up speed removed millions of tons of top soil(wind erosian) turning vast teritories into dessert deprived of arable soil\n\ntoday the farmers plow in circles and curves to prevent this building up of speed by the wind,\n\nbut still vast sections of land are exposed to the sun whi
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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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to keep species of plants and animals from going extinct and to educatethe public
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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!!!!
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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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Protect and respect their habitats.  Help wildlife by building a bird feeder, composting, eliminating the use of pesticides and herbicides, etc.  In your garden use plants native to your area - do not introduce plants that are not native - they may disrupt the natural balance. \n\nPossibly one of the best things we can do is stop demanding so much of the world's resources, which, in one way or another, destroys wildlife habitat - increases global warming, destroys the rain forest, etc.  Use cloth reusable shopping bags to carry home groceries.  Buy at bulk food stores using much less packaging materials.  Recycle as much of what we use as possible - glass, soda cans, food cans, plastic containers, newsprint, etc.  Recycle toys, books, games, clothes, etc. by donating them to goodwill or Salvation Army, and shop for things you need at those stores.  Live a simpler, gentler life style.  \n\nHere are a few sites you may like to view.
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Plant a tree. If everyone did that it would add 6 billion trees to the world. You could even plant two trees. ;)
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Deforestation\n\nThe deforestation is a war against the mother nature, it brings all of our human miseries and it affects to every souls of our world. It changes the climate, brings flood, drought, destroys habitation of wildlife, destroys many plants and animals. Deforestation is the beginning of destruction of lives in our world. It is a war against our lives.
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let me try:\n1)Save Plants to save Life.\n2)Protect plants and animals and protect yourself.
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I still believe that most of must wants to preserve the nature, however it is the conflict of interest that is preventing us from doing so,  because of the development and modernization of our world some natural habbitat are being destroyed. We focus more on modernization thus conservation of nature is being taken for granted.
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Condition that they shud be planted again...else they are no longer renewable source with rapid destruction of forests. As they grow again n again they are renewable.