Why save the rainforest?
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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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An effort buy a group of people or a government to protect, very old, large, dense forests.    Protecting them from disease, man's progress etc.\n\nSo you have a place to go and enjoy nature....without spawling apartment complexes everywhere.\n\n\nKick off your shoes and go run through the woods!  Enjoy!
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None at all. You have bought into an urban myth. Trees in the Amazon don't produce any oxygen. Not even one little bit.\n\nAN OFT-HEARD WARNING with regard to our planet's future is that by cutting back tropical forests we put our supply of oxygen gas at risk. Many good reasons exist for placing deforestation near the top of our list of environmental sins, but fortunately the fate of the Earth's O2 supply does not hang in the balance. Simply put, our atmosphere is endowed with such an enormous reserve of this gas that even if we were to burn all our fossil fuel reserves, all our trees, and all the organic matter stored in soils, we would use up only a few percent of the available O2. No matter how foolishly we treat our environmental heritage, we simply don't have the capacity to put more than a small dent in our O2 supply. Furthermore, the Earth's forests do not play a dominant role in maintaining O2 reserves, because they consume just as much of this gas as they produce. In the tropics, ants, termites, bacteria, and fungi eat nearly the entire photosynthetic O2 product. Only a tiny fraction of the organic matter they produce accumulates in swamps and soils or is carried down the rivers for burial on the sea floor.
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Here is the problem; the soil in a rain forest is surprisingly not very good. Most of the loam and organic matter is up in the canopy of the forest, so when folks clear the land for farming they usually destroy the land. It might give crops for a couple of years, but then it fails. By carefully choosing crops farmers could probably grow good soil over time, but most indigenous farmers don't do that. Good farming practices usually involve crop rotation, growing deciduous trees mixed in for loam. Growing Beans and clover to fix nitrogen into the soil. The main problem with destroying the rain forest is that we are drastically cutting the biodiversity of land based life on Earth. Once a species is gone it is gone. \n\nAnother problem that agriculture presents anywhere but which is exacerbated in a rain forest is nitrogen and phosphorous pollution from fertilizer. I am not saying farmers should not use fertilizer, but it needs to be managed better than it is currently.
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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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saving the enviornment.
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Exactly. A far bigger emphasis should be put on environment protection than it is getting now. Everybody and every country is only looking at their own interests while the amazing rainforests are being cut and the waters full of oil.. \nI'm from east Europe, air pollution is a big problem here too, still only few people think and talk about these. I hope they won't realise the importance of this when it will be already irreversible.
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Unfortunately, the world needs to come to grips with the fact that Brazil will continue to log rain forest in the Amazon and convert land into low-output farm or range lands.  Tropical rainforest soils are very low in nutrients and threir conversion has serious, probably global, consequences.  There seems to be a pretty good consensus about the problem, but it's not just a simple matter of "big corporations" (they play their part) and a ruined environment.\n\nBesides the big corporations logging, there are a host of small companies that selectively log the most valuable trees.  This has caused the "under count" by many thousands of acres of logged land. (ref. 1)  Often once an area is opened up even in a rudimentary way, subistence "slash and burn" farmers follow, often causing large regional fires. (ref. 2) These are very poor, often uneducated, people who see few alternatives to their life style.  Eventualy, the depleted land often ends up in large ranches.  Those who even try to regulate logging do so at considerable risk as the profits from logging and land conversion are huge.(ref. 3).  Last year saw the worst drought in memory in the Amazon, showing that the environment may have reaced a point of no return. (ref.4)\n\nTo this person, there is no easy solution.  Brazil is a poor country where many of the people live on less than $2 a day.  Nobody has the authority to tell them to stop logging other than the Brazilian government, and even then it is doubtful that such a ban could be enforced given the poverty and lawless conditions in the Amazon.  It's like telling the Columbian's to stop growing coca - the US has spent millions on that effort with little effect.  The solution (if there is one) is to end the demand for tropical hardwood, because it's not just Brazil but every tropical forest that is disappearing fast.  This means providing people with an alternate way to make a living.  The developed world needs to spend the money to give the workers in the Amazon (and other extraction-based poor countries) decent life choices that are sustainable along with a stake in a better world.  I invite you to visit the one.org website which discusses their campaign to do just this. (www.one.org).  Actions speak louder than words.  I have given my favorite organizations site as the last reference, but there are many working for global equity and justice.  Environmental problems in developing countries simply cannot be addressed about without dealing with issues of poverty, disease, and lack of education.
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Rainforest destruction and Global warming.
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1) The continued loss of Family farms, and the increase in Corporate farms.\n2) Advances in automation of farm machinery.\n3)Changes in chemicals used in fertilizer.\n4) Genetic engineering ans opposed to hybredization.\nIn 3rd world countries in Africa and South America war and global warming have increased the loss of rain forest by 'slash & burn' significantly.
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Its environmentally freindly...give yourself a pat on the back for saving our planet.
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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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People are not understanding the importance of the tropical forests which helps for good rain fall.Instead of saving them they are destroying.It is so shameful.
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Things to do to save the forest:\n\nClick here\nhttp://www.ran.org/info_center/factsheets/01c.html
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Why would you want to kill one living thing to save another one of the same worth?
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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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Endangered because of poaching for traditional medicines and destruction of habitat. Habitat tropical rainforests,found in Indonesia,though very rare.They are herbivores.Importance for natural balance. Solution: to stop illegal poaching, and provide space for them to live in.