Earth’s forests. Each year‚ strips of forest equivalent to the size of Panama are cut down and cleared. If these mass clearings continue at the rate they have been‚ all of the rain forests across the globe could cease to exist within one century. One major cause of deforestation is agriculture. When farmers need more room to plant crops‚ or more space to graze their livestock‚ they cut acres of forests down to accommodate themselves. Sometimes‚ small farmers clear away trees in the forest to feed
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World’s Biggest Trees Are Dying Many of the world’s oldest trees‚ that are 100-300 years old‚ are dying. This is a trend happening worldwide. It’s happening in forests‚ savannahs‚ woods‚ mountains‚ cities‚ etc. The cause is human domination. We’ve been killing off these trees with pollution‚ deforestation‚ and other causes. This could really affect the world because other plants and animals depend on these trees for life‚ whether it be for food‚ shelter‚ or other needs. Large‚ old trees provide
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emergent layer which has giant trees growing from 100 to 240 feet tall. These trees have umbrella-shaped crowns that grow high above the rest of the forest. They have their own distinct plant and animal life. The next layer is called the canopy. These trees grow up to 130 feet tall‚ and they form a tight canopy‚ or covering‚ over the rest of the forest which allows very little sunlight to come down. The branches and trunks of these trees are covered with smaller plants and appear to be tied together
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habitat quality‚ water quality‚ shoreline protection and aesthetics (Twilley & Chen 1997). Mangrove communities are characterized by higher primary productivity compared to other terrestrial plant communities (Lugo and Snedaker‚ 1974). Though standing forest biomass is not a direct measurement of primary productivity‚ it is often used for comparison of the potential productivity (Clough and Attiwill‚ 1982; Hutchings and Saenger‚ 1987). Standing biomass provides information on primary productivity‚ storage
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FOREST CONSERVATION BOTSWANA Prepared by: Judith Nomvuyo Ndlovu 1.0 Introduction Forest Conservation Botswana (FCB) is a company registered under the Botswana’s companies’ Act and mandated to manage the Tropical Forest Conservation Fund (TFCF) in Botswana. The company is a non-profit making entity and is directed by the Ministry of Environment‚ Wildlife and Tourism on behalf of the Governments of Botswana and the United States of America. The main aim of the Tropical Forest Conservation
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Landslide in a Village The rainstorm was over‚ I dashed out from the house to free myself. Spending hours in the house really made me feel bored rigid (extremely bored). I needed fresh air and so I went for a ride in the neighbourhood of Bukit Katil. I enjoyed cycling along the roads that ran parallel with rows of tall trees. The atmosphere around me was refreshingly cool. In the midst of admiring view‚ I caught the sight of a house that was partly buried in the mud. I halted (stop)
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Environmental issues are harmful effects of human activitity on the biophysical environment. Environmentalism‚ a social andenvironmental movement that started in the 1960s‚ addresses environmental issues through advocacy‚ education and activism. The carbon dioxide equivalent of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere has already exceeded 400 parts per million (NOAA) (with total "long-term" GHG exceeding 455 parts per million). (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report) This level is considered
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HOW IT AFFECTS OKRIKA. Introduction The Niger Delta is located in Southern Nigeria and is Africa’s largest delta‚ covering about 70‚000 square kilometers‚ and with about one-third of it made up of wetlands‚ and the third largest world mangrove forests. The Niger Delta is unique in Nigeria because it is the home of Nigeria’s oil industry‚ with its attendant environmental hazards such as water‚ land‚ air pollution‚ etc. Human activities and those of oil exploration and exploitation raise a number
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order for the circulation to continues‚ take one piece out and disasters follows. According to the National Wildlife Federation‚ climate change would have dire consequences for the state of New Hampshire. Forests are likely to shift from conifer and mixed forests to temperate deciduous forests‚ and species such as the sugar maple‚ of importance to hundreds of maple syrup producers‚ could disappear you may not surfer the consequence but that doesn’t mean that some else wasn’t affect by those action
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The Rainforest Ecosystem “In an average year in a tropical rain forest‚ the climate is very humid because of all the rainfall‚ which amounts to about 250 cm per year” ("Discover The Rainforest "‚ 2011). The rain forest has large amounts of rain because it is very hot and wet. Tropical rainforests are defined by rainfall. They would not survive without it. Not all rain forests have tropical sunny weather. “Subtropical rainforests that lay outside of the tropics have seasonal
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