Christina Jackson Environmental sciences ECOSYSTEMS RAINFOREST By: Christina L. Jackson The business dictionary definition of rainforest is a dense forest of evergreen trees growing in regions of heavy year-round rainfall in tropical latitudes (such as Amazon Basin‚ Borneo‚ New Guinea‚ North-East India‚ and Zair Basin) and warm temperate latitudes (such as Eastern Australia‚ Florida‚ South Africa‚ South Brazil‚ South and Central China‚ South Japan‚ and New Zealand’s North Island). Nearly half
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environment. 5 The preventive measures against deforestation. (III) Body: A The effects of deforestation on wildlife: - The rainforest is one of the most biologically diverse regions of the world. 2 more than a million species live in the rain forest and from that number‚ millions of those species are not classified. 3 Deforestation affects the rainforest because many trees are lost in the process. These trees play a very important role of housing many forest animals. In other words the
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in Climate 1 Human influence Conclusion Rainforests have been around for thousands of years serving as a vital source for humans‚ animals‚ plants‚ and other organisms. Specifically‚ the Amazon Rainforest is one of the most essential geographical features because it is the largest rainforest in the world. People mistake the Amazon Rainforest as another wooded area‚ but the Amazon Rainforest is the biggest provider of oxygen due to its broad vegetation‚ and it also
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and oxygen levels dramatically‚ which would increase the global warming. Deforestation is mostly experienced between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn especially in the Brazilian part of the Amazon‚ which covers 33% of the world ’s rainforests. There are many reasons for this process; most of the clearing is done for agricultural purposes such as cattle farming‚ which often replace the rain forest to grow beef for the world market. Farming is another reason for deforestation‚ this happens
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Disappearing Amazon: Understanding a Global Issue by Kelsey Numan In the past few decades‚ the Amazon rainforest has been in the spotlight of environmental debate—and rightfully so. The past 40 years of human destruction has resulted in a loss of about 20% of the rainforest. The Amazon is home to millions of unique plant and animal species that contribute to a vast majority of the Earth’s flourishing biodiversity. Methods of clear-cutting and burning for industrial‚ agricultural‚ and use for livestock
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when they arrived‚ where they migrated from‚ and how settlers have affected the rain forest for the Amazonians. The different resources that are in the rain forest will also be discussed to give a better idea on why many people have come to the rainforest to settle and collect these resources. The way the Brazil Government has used the rain forest for their people and what they have done to the Amazon tribes to affect life for them in the rain forest will also be in this report. The Amazonian Tribes
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the Tropic of Capricorn and currently cover less than 5% of the Earth’s surface‚ but support 50% of all living organisms on Earth. The Amazon Rainforest is an example of a magnificent tropical biome found in the heart of Brazil. Its basin covers an area of 7 million square kilometres and it has an astonishing value in the natural world. The Amazon Rainforest is a key provider of ecosystem services‚ including carbon sequestration and freshwater resources‚ as well as being home to the most diverse and
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of Chico Mendez Chico Mendez was born in the Amazon Rainforest‚ December 15th‚ 1944. He became a rubber tapper at the age of 9‚ and was taught everything he knows by his father. In the 1970’s he became involved in a non-violent resistant movement to defend the forest and homes of forest people from deforestation. He believed in using the Amazons resources sustainably for the economic benefit of local people and protecting the rainforest from logging‚ cattle ranching‚ mining and agriculture (plantations)
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statement in the context of the biome you have studied. The Amazon 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
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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 the industry even greater. Also the tribes that live in the rainforest are self dependant but they sometimes
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