PLANTATIONS Would you like your home taken away from you? Many animal species including the Orangutan are becoming extremely endangered because of land clearage for new palm oil plantations in the tropical rainforests of Sumatra‚ an island near Indonesia and Malaysia in south-east Asia. Sadly‚ 80% of the Orangutan’s habitat has been lost in the past 20 years due to this. The rapid loss of environment has caused the existence of these primates severely threatened and has lead experts to estimate
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The Borneo Rainforest is located in Borneo which is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java‚ Indonesia‚ at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. The Rainforest is 130 million years old‚ which makes it the oldest rainforest in the world. The Borneo rainforest is one of the only remaining natural habitats for the endangered Bornean Orangutan. It is an important refuge for many endemic forest species‚ including the Asian Elephant‚ the Sumatran Rhinoceros‚ the
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BUSINESS ETHICS ASSIGNMENT – TASK 3 CONTENTS Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………….…Pg 3 Background on Asia Pulp and Paper Co’…….………………………………………………….……..Pg 4 Question of Ethics – Deforestation and Illegal logging……………………………………….…Pg 5 Wildlife Extinction…………………………………………………………………………….……………………Pg 6 APP becoming sustainable…………………………………………………………………….……………….Pg 8 Recommendations to live and operate sustainably ……………………….…………………….Pg 9 Ethical code for APP……………………………………….……………………………
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rainfall * Gully erosion – occurs where there’s intense rainfall and little vegetation cover. Force of water cuts gullies in slopes :O! * Wind erosion – occurs in dry parts of world * What makes soil erosion worse? * Deforestation and removing vegetation. As a result of this soil gets exposed to wind/rain * Overgrazing by animals. Result is same as above * Over cultivating the soil! Especially monoculture which weakens the soil and structure and removed
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demands are bound to grow.Industrialized countries‚ with higher living standards and greater numbers of cars‚ produce far more air pollution and greenhouse gases than developing countries. Developed countries also contribute to overfishing and deforestation . But these countries can reduce serious environmental hazards by using technology such as smokestack scrubbers‚ emission systems‚ and waste-water treatment plants. Although developing countries consume a far smaller percentage of the world’s resources
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out they need to bulldoze a path in and out and often destroy more trees than they are selling. In this essay I am going to express my views on deforestation. The Amazon rainforest is about the size of Europe and every day roughly 51.8 square kilometres are cut down. So that’s 18‚900 square km a year and that’s a lot. One of the main reasons for deforestation is the actions of Brazil‚ in the 1970 – 80’s Brazil borrowed a large sum of money from MEDCs to develop their country they now owe these MEDCs
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Introduction Walt Disney has made many lives of people across the globe acquire a very imaginative imaginary and has made many hours of entertainment. Over his many years of cartooning and entertaining movies Walt Disney has earned him self 48 Academy Awards. Childhood Adolescence On December 5th 1901 Walt Disney was born into a family of seven
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Illegal logging I. Introduction Introduction to illegal logging Illegal logging has risen to prominence in international forestry dialogues over the last five years and there is a growing international willingness to combat the problem. There is widespread recognition of its linkages to ineffective governance‚ social conflict and violence. Illegal logging practices and trade cost the producers of legitimately
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date : 22 March 2013 Title : describe the term sustainable development and discuss any three of the following problems facing sustainable development:erosion‚deforestation‚pollution and access to resources Table of contents 1. Introduction 2. Define and describe ecology 3. Describe Sustainable Development 4. Discuss Erosion‚ Deforestation and pollution 5. Conclusion Introduction In this assignment different aspects with relation to sustainable development will be defined and discussed. Ecology
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Deforestation is indeed the primary threat to the orangutan‚ a species of great ape known for its keen intelligence and the fact that it’s the largest animal to live primarily in trees. A 2007 assessment by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) predicts that orangutans will be virtually eliminated in the wild within two decades if current deforestation trends continue. The great reddish-brown apes are native to the tropical rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia‚ which are being cut down rapidly
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