HONG BANG UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL YEAR 2012-2013‚ TERM 7 Foreign Laguage Faculty Name: TRAN THI THUY Campus: 28-30 Ngo Quyen‚ District 5 Student Code: 09072836 Module: US CULTURE Class: NN09-AV MID-TERM TEST Date 11/29/2012 TOPIC: Research both sides of the issue: the environmental value of the rain forests and the need of the people who are cutting them down. Also looking for what experts are recommending should be done. TROPICAL RAINFORESTS Tropical rainforests are important
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Explain why Rainforests are fragile ecosystems under threat Human beings are the biggest threat to the rainforest ecosystems due to the exploitative nature of our industrial society. As the NIC’s with rainforests in have begun to develop they found the economic value of the rainforests for many international markets as well as internal infrastructure; the resources available are priceless. Logging companies are granted forestry rights‚ usually cheaply‚ to harvest timber to sell abroad for furniture
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Outline Introduction Body - The Amazon Rainforest’s Vegetation‚ Species‚ Climate 1 Amazon’s Vegetation 1 Deforestation 1 Human Influence 2 Soil Quality 1 Plant Adaptation 3 Universal Dependence 1 Oxygen Production 2 Lumber Production 4 Plant Species 1 2 Animal Species 1 Primates 1 Howler Monkey 2 Squirrel Monkey 3 Uakari Monkey 2 Mammals 1 Amazon Manatee 2 Pink River Dolphin 3 Anteater 4
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issues are deforestation‚ desertification‚ climate change‚ and pollution. A more general term used to identify these types of issues is Environmental Problems. Deforestation is a massive clearing of the 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
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decades. (National Geographic‚ 1996) The Amazon gets worse and worse every time it is observed. The main cause for this is deforestation. This investigation will show what is happening to the Amazon Region and what could be the management for it. Socially‚ the main cause for rainforest destruction is deforestation which is done by humans‚ who are at fault for it. Deforestation is
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References: Amazon Rainforest. n.d. . Deforestation. n.d. . Docksai‚ Rick. "Disappearing Forests? Actions to Save the World ’s Trees." n.d. https://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=5&sid=543d1c02-cfd5-4584-bb38-84c1e9052ea3%40sessionmgr114&hid=117. Graf‚ Christine. "The Vanishing
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rainforest is affected by both human interference such as deforestation as well as the climate contributing to global warming and causing both harm and extinction towards the species located within the rainforest. Some of the changes are not down to human interference and is the process of evolution. In the Amazon there are different areas making up the rainforest‚ some areas show human interference where the area has been affected by deforestation‚ whereas other areas of the Amazon stay untouched and
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Research Essay on Greenpeace Fernando Cisneroz Greenpeace English 101 November 26‚ 2012 APA style Greenpeace Greenpeace was born in the early seventies‚ 1971. They were a group of Individuals who had a dream of making Earth a better place to live‚ Changing the way people think on how the environment is treated which affects us all. A group of People had rallied together to “Bear witness” to Nuclear testing being conducted underground on an Island secluded to endangered wildlife. On the
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Period 2 4-11-12 They Should Be Saved Rainforests cover about six percent of the world. Millions of tribal people inhabit these rainforests. A little less than fifty percent of the world’s animals and insects live in the rainforests. Although rainforests seem so important‚ they are being destroyed at an alarming rate today. Humans should stop cutting down rainforests because destroying them causes plants and insects to become endangered and there is also a great supply of fruit and nut trees
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Intro Forest Conservation is the practice of planting and maintaining forested areas for the benefit and sustainability of future generations. Around the year 1900 in the United States‚ forest conservation became popular with the uses of natural resources. It is the upkeep of the natural resources within a forest that are beneficial to both humans and the ecosystem. Forest conservation acts to maintain‚ plan‚ and improve forested areas. Forests provide wildlife with a suitable habitat for living
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