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 that will be lost if rainforests are cut down. Destroying rainforests causes plants and insects
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Environmental Sustainability Paper GLG/101 Danita LaSage Rachelle Ann Franko September 10‚ 2011 In today’s world it’s our responsibility as the population to create Sustainability with the earth’s resources. There are only so many resources on earth like timber‚ food‚ petroleum etc. to go around. The more that we use and take in the less it becomes available for us to consume. The world’s budget cannot indeterminately increase on a limited world. As a result the economy develops and the population
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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; In 2006 the Greenpeace launched campaigns targetting
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-greenpeace-in) Greenpeace is an energetic charitable international organization that promotes a concerted agenda of getting information on the environment out to the people. They create causes like the campaigning a zero emissions pathway to help stop climate change‚ a global network of protected areas to preserve the world ’s ancient forests and a network of marine reserves to defend the world ’s oceans and helps put information on the environment out there for the public to be aware of. The main
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species living in all kinds of rainforests. Some valuable resources there that we all we are the type of plants we use for medicine‚ we get food there like bananas‚ we use tress as well‚ and many more but that’s a few to name. 2. What impact does deforestation have on the rainforests? What are some of the short and long-term consequences that result from the destruction of the rainforests? The impact would be leaving all those species there to die because they don’t know where to go mostly all of can
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local peoples of the rainforest suffer greatly. There is an even greater effect on the world as species loss is rapidly increasing‚ greenhouse gas levels are climbing‚ and wood supplies are being depleted. The world collectively must curb the deforestation that increases at an alarming rate…...............................................................................................................2 I. There are increasing amounts of consumables commodities that are required by civilization
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wood fuel‚ timber products‚ agriculture‚ and livestock. This is why we must take extreme measures to conserve these natural resources. We can conserve forests and woodlands by careful management of the woodlands and forests‚ also by limiting deforestation and by adapting good forestry practices and to encourage woodland owners to help sustain their land. New by-laws have been implemented in which if a heavy fine and/or prison sentence may follow if a person breaches their conservation agreement
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ICE Case Studies Deforestation in Haiti CASE NUMBER: 54 MNUMONIC: HAITIDEF NAME: DEFORESTATION IN HAITI AUTHOR: Kristen Picariello December 18‚ 1997 I. CASE BACKGROUND 1. Abstract Haiti is one of the many developing countries that has sought to increase its growth and end its cycle of poverty. One of the ways in which it has done this has been by cutting down the forests. Most of Haiti’s population live below the poverty line. Nearly 70 percent of all Haitians depend on the
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How does deforestation contribute to the loss of biodiversity in the Amazon? Introduction The Amazon rainforest is the world’s greatest remaining natural resource‚ and the most powerful and bio actively diverse natural wonder on the planet. Its size is so great that if the Amazonian were to be a country‚ it would be the ninth largest in the world. It covers more than 1.2 billion acres of land‚ and has approximately 6.47 square kilometres of rainforest; making up 54% of the word’s rainforests. The
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Essay on The Effect of Deforestation to Human Lives Length: 6 Pages 1449 Words Deforestation is increasing as a global concern. In recent years deforestation has risen to dangerous levels. This reason is mainly due to the fact that most people have no idea what deforestation is. This lack of education has caused many changes in the global economy. The concerns no longer center on deforestation but in the effects it will have in our environment in the future. This issue has sparked national attention
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