Dexter Patrick S. Baltazar NASC 10/ Planet Earth-Jungles Last meeting‚ we viewed a documentary entitled Jungles (Planet Earth Diaries episode) that focused mainly on the ecosystem and different factors involved in tropical rainforests. The emphasis mainly developed around the idea of biodiversity. It is quite interesting that these environments only consist three percent of the total land in the entirety of the world but is a standing habitat to most of living organisms (50%) of different kingdoms
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Brasil in Portuguese. Brazil has beautiful land areas‚ different kinds of weather‚ unique varieties of plants and animals‚ and they have different cultures for people. Land Brazil has many different land areas. One land area is the Amazon rainforest. In the rainforest you can hear birds and frogs singing‚ and snakes hissing‚ and the tree branches moving. You can feel the mosquitos bite as they swarm around
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‘Utilitarianism‚ Mill distinguished between physical pleasures (eating) and intellectual pleasures (such as reading). Mill’s theory can be applied to the Amazon rainforest as within their landscape there is a culture of indigenous people called the Kayapo.The Kayapo tribe lives alongside the Xingu River in the eastern part of the Amazon Rainforest. Mill focus’ on pleasure without pain in the eyes of the government and the people of Brazil would enforce future development on the land in which the Kayapo
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Unit 38: Environmental Health M2: Assess the effectiveness of organisations in improving the environment. In this task i will be assessing the effectiveness of the greenpeace organisation in improving the environment. Over the years Greenpeace has targeted some of the worlds largest drivers of deforestation such as the palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia‚ also the soy and casttle industries in the Brazilian Amazon. These are a prime example of successful Greenpeace campaigns. For example;
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The Tarkine rainforest is located off Australia‚ on an island known as Tasmania. The Tarkine rainforest is the second largest temperate rainforest in the world. Temperate rainforests are extremely rare. It runs continuous for more than 70 kilometers and contains the Rapid‚ Keith‚ Donaldson‚ and Savage River systems. Globally‚ this is one of the most significant rainforests‚ which is temperate‚ left of the plant. The Tarkine rainforest contains three out four of Tasmania’s rainforest types: Callidendrous
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Amazon Rainforest Conservation through Development of Indigenous Peoples Today‚ the Amazon Rainforest is a very different place than it was when the Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana first navigated through its river in 1542. The forest has been around for 55 million years on the South American continent (e.g. Maslin et al. 2005) but through decades of deforestation‚ climate change‚ agriculture‚ and population growth‚ the Amazon Rainforest is facing a point of destruction. In Brazil‚ at the
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vegetation around therefore more animals. The different types of biomes are: *Taiga *grassland *chaparral *deciduous forest *tundra *tropical rainforest *desert *alpine *Savannah there are 9 biomes *subantartic *temperate forest Biomes - Tundra - Taiga - Temperate Forest - Grassland - Chaparral - Desert - Rainforest Tundra is the youngest of all the biomes. The tundra was formed by a retreating continental glacier only 10‚000 years ago. The tundra is also the home
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Amazon forest‚ which is located in South America. Unfortunately‚ over 60% of the world’s deforestation is also occurring here. This does not only affect the millions of animals and plants in the rainforests but also the 400 indigenous groups that reside in the Amazon rainforest. The deforestation of the rainforest is the collective efforts of many countries such as Bolivia‚ Brazil‚ Colombia‚ Ecuador and the French Guiana. Agriculture has been reprimanded for the spike in deforestation especially in Brazil
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world‚ and the most spatacular place that caught my attention was the tropical rain forest.Tropical rainforests cover about 6% of the Earth’s total land surface. They are mainly located around the belt at the equator. The climate of the rainforest is warm most of the year and has a lot of rain through most of the year. The climate is perfect for animals and plant growth. Even though the rainforests cover such a little amount of land mass of the Earth‚ they are home to the largest number of plant and
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Levels of the Rainforest. Plant Life Animals Have you ever been to a rainforest? Well knows your chance for a limited time offer since many rainforests are disappearing see them now. Let me explain the wonderful reasons why you would want to go to the rainforest. Think about it. Imagine a foggy forest with birds churpping and monkeys calling. Also you would get to see very rare plants and trees. All this and more when you come to the rainforest. You can even find a rainforest near you so you
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