In this essay‚ it will talk about why the logger uses of the rainforest are important and what they use the rainforest for. Loggers wants to make a living. They rely on the Amazon Rainforest to support their way of life. Logging bring jobs to the poor. Without people being able to log‚ poverty would have grown throughout Latin America. Loggers creates more lands for agriculture and roads. When having more land for agriculture‚ there are more and better abundant production of food and materials.
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The tropical rainforest is a warm biome and ecosystem. An important tropical rainforest in the world is the Amazon rainforest. The latitude and longitude of the Amazon rainforest is 3.4653° S‚ 62.2159° W. The Amazon rainforest is very hot and moist. The average temperature of the tropical rainforest is 80°F. The average precipitation is 60 to 160 inches that is distributed evenly throughout the year. The tropical rainforest is suitable to many plant and animal life. It contains the most biodiversity
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Maple decline affects primarily sugar maple‚ Norway maple‚ and red maple in the Northeast and Midwest. The problem is not a new one; stagheaded maples were described as early as 1917 in Massachusetts. At that time‚ dieback was attributed mainly to drought and poor conditions for tree growth afforded by the urban environment. These same conditions exist today‚ and reports of the incidence and severity of maple decline have increased markedly in recent years. In urban sites‚ principle stress factors
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The emerald ash borer is a wood-boring beetle that has migrated over from Asia to the United States. Over the past twenty years‚ the EAB has spread throughout the United States. Emerald ash borer infects and kills ash trees. They have few natural predators’ in the United States‚ and can devastate entire ash tree populations. Emerald Ash Borer In Georgia The state of Georgia has been very proactive in regards to controlling the EAB population. They began trapping programs in state forests back
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The writer of the editorial claims that hunting is the only cause of the decline in the population of dappled grackle in the Big Dark Swamp and Gordon Act should not be reauthorized unless it includes the same provisions of the Wayne County. Firstly‚ the Gordon Act prohibits the building of roads and cutting of old grown trees in the swamp but permits hunting.The editor blames the logging activities for the decline in the population of the dappled grackle. The editors claims are unsubstantiated
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They live in South America and can occasionally be found in North America and are listed as near threatened/vulnerable‚ with 150‚000 left in the wild. They like to live in woodland and swamps with good thick coverage and good access to water. They are hunters and eat a wide and varied diet from Deers and Tapirs to even Frogs‚ Mice and Livestock. They prefer the dense forest and swamps so that they have perfect cover for stalking their prey and they also are strong swimmers. The spotted fur of the
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Columbia Did you know Colombians speak spanish! Colombia also makes up 90% of the world’s emerald mining. Even in 2011‚ 1.6 million people visited Colombia making it a hot topic spot! Tourists might come for the blue lizards‚ or even pink dolphins! Columbia has all of these things to offer‚ but that’s just barely anything this amazing country has to offer. The great Andes mountains pass through Colombia. Which has been home to many unique‚ and ancient civilizations. Although the Andes are cool to
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Ever heard of the evil know as mountaintop mining? Mountaintop mining is the act of removing resources from mountains until there is nothing left of it. The mountain becomes hollow and is left standing there. The worst part of all is that during the operation so much pollution is being distributed into our atmosphere‚ that it has become one of the biggest reasons why our earth is dying. Mountaintop mining is horrible because it destroys ecosystems and damages biodiversity over an extreme scale.
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Dear ladies and gentlemen‚ I am a member of the Brazilian Government and we believe that large scale development should be allowed in the Amazon rainforest and I am going to give you our reasons in this speech. Firstly we know that the tourism industry is one of the country’s biggest employers‚ involving one in every eleven workers. It contributes an estimated 8 percent to the country’s GDP. In the rainforest quite a substantial amount of developments will be to do with tourism therefore making
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Pros and Cons of Clearcutting There are many good and bad reasons to clear cut or not to clear cut and most people don’t understand that clear cutting isn’t bad per say but can be helpful in the long run. There are two versions of clear cutting‚ one called a commercial clear cut‚ where only the merchantable tree is cut‚ leaving the unmerchantable tree behind to be either left or burnt in the slash piles. The other is a plain old clear cut‚ where everything is cut‚ from the merchantable trees to
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