For my Amazon Rainforest Essay‚ I will be choosing the Rubber Tappers. Rubber tappers are a group of people who tap rubber trees for a living. They want to keep rubber tapping but‚ the loggers are cutting the trees down. All they want is protected areas where they can keep rubber tapping. Only the Brazilian government can approve of that. Rubber tappers first came to the Amazon rainforest in the 1870’s. Most rubber tappers live in Brazil‚ near the Amazon rainforest‚ or in the Amazon rainforest
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Rainforest; a luxuriant‚ dense forest rich in biodiversity‚ found typically in tropical areas with constantly heavy rainfall. Why would someone want to kill the Amazon rainforest? Its full out life and nature. Trees that are sky high and waterfalls that flow into the lakes and rivers. The Amazon metaphorically is the lungs of our earth and its about to be ripped to bare ground. For what? So people can have more land for stores to make money. How important is it to protect the rainforest? In the
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Why are Tropical Rainforests so Important? Tropical rainforests occupy only 7.5% of the worlds surface and is 1.2 billion hectares‚ yet over half of all plants and animal species live or grow here. The largest rainforest in the world is Amazon which is 600 million hectares and covers nine nations- Brazil‚ Bolivia‚ Peru‚ Guiana‚ Ecuador‚ Colombia‚ Venezuela‚ Guyana and Suriname. Tropical rainforests are home to many rare plant and animals‚ they contain 80% of all insects and 90% of all primates
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Human Activities and the Loss of Natural Resources Natural resources including soil‚ water‚ forest‚ mineral and biodiversity have been repeatedly destroyed around the world by humans. “Since 1970‚ over 600‚000 square kilometers (232‚000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed” (Butler‚ 2011). The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) estimated that “soil erosion carries away a volume of soil equivalent to one metre deep over 200‚000 hectares every year in the Philippines.” In
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the United States of America marginalizes the Ojibwa culture. The community way of life is damaged. Nanapush alludes about the destructions “I heard the groan and crack‚ felt the ground tremble as each tree slammed earth. I weakened into an old man as one oak went down‚ another and another was lost” (Erdrich 2004: 9). Thus the members of the Ojibwa tribe are divided against one another. People become greedy. They are against themselves. Kashpaw family becomes greedy. Paying taxes becomes their main
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Model Congress MC # 143 In the Model Congress February 14‚ 2013 Miss Princess Lou Tubiano introduce the following resolution: An act for environmental development and reforms that is essential to the permanence in Philippines and future generations. Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled for the environmental development and reforms that are essential to permanence in Philippines and future generations and any found doing illegal acts
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Topics to cover in our story book: clean water – don’t use river water‚ water from puddles‚ etc! It IS contaminated and may contain cholera-causing bacteria that will make you sick. Don’t use charcoal whenever you can‚ use LP gas if possible! Why? Remember this tree… with the swing… you could climb it‚ sit under it for shade‚ play on it‚ hide beneath it’s roots‚ etc. But charcoal is made from the destroying this trees… and all these trees. When too many trees are cut down‚ animals (which ones
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Do you ever sit back and think of how you as a human being hurt the earth? In both The Lorax and The mystery of Easter Island people fail to realize how they’re setting themselves and the earth up for disaster. How did they hurt me? Why do they hurt me? The earth wants to know. If I ask you to go build a statue and then bring it 500 miles across the land‚ how would you do it? The residents of Easter Island had their own idea. The islanders used trees to drag the statues across the land‚ cool right
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French broom is an invasive plant that destroys the surrounding environment. Broom is described as an “upright‚ evergreen shrub‚ commonly to ten feet tall” (“Invasive Plants of California’s Wildland”). It is an invasive plant species‚ commonly found in numerous places in California‚ for example‚ the Bay Area. Broom is a noxious weed‚ especially in the states of Hawaii‚ Oregon‚ Washington State and California. Nowadays more people are recognizing how detrimental it can be to nature. In fact‚ there
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Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean near South America‚ suffered the Tragedy of the Commons‚ which caused the natives of Easter Island to go extinct. The tragedy of the commons is what happens when people don’t communicate and are not conservative of their resources. The islanders cut down all of their trees‚ resulting in the loss of many resources. According to Ralph Faggotter‚ when the people arrived‚ there were large forests and palm trees‚ along with many species of birds and seals.
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