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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on the island of Borneo‚ an area of rainforests the size of three football pitches is cut down every minute of every day. The plantation owners are destroying these rainforests because palm oil is used in many of our everyday products. If everyone only buys products that will not contain palm oil‚ then the people that chop down the trees will not do it anymore. It will be the best way to prevent monkeys‚ tigers and other animals and birds living in the rainforests not only Borneo island from becoming
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the palm oil plantations and the orangutans Introduction Once upon a time orangutans roamed all of Asia’s tropical rainforests‚ with over 500‚000 orangutans spread over 162 million hectares. Today‚ only around 20‚000 orangutans are left‚ mostly due to 80% of their forest home being destroyed. One of the main reasons that the rainforests in Sumatra (Indonesia) and Borneo (Malaysia) are decreasing rapidly is because of palm oil plantations. Millions of hectares are lost each year due to this
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is necessary‚ in order to preserve as much biodiversity as possible‚ to focus on areas which are the most at risk and where the efforts will result in the greatest number of species saved. Examples of biodiversity hotspots include the rainforest of Borneo and as a matter of fact most of the forests of Indonesia and Malaysia‚ Reef environments across tropical zones and many others. Often‚ loss of biodiversity arise from rapid deterioration of the environment in the pursue of the extraction
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uprooting of forests‚ habitat degradation‚ climate change and the violation of such rights of indigenous peoples in the countries where it is produced. According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)‚ an area the equivalent size of 300 football fields of rainforest is cleared each hour to make way for palm oil production. This large-scale deforestation is pushing many species to extinction. When a large proportion of palm oil expansion it will occurs at the expense of biodiversity and ecosystems in the countries
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done. TROPICAL RAINFORESTS Tropical rainforests are important to everyone‚ not just to the plants and animals living there. Nowadays‚ the areas covered by rainforests around the world are rapidly shrinking‚ and many countries that have tropical rainforests are poor. These are very big threats that will influence extremely not only nature‚ economy‚ culture but also heath and longevity of human. Therefore‚ it is very necessary to make a conversation about tropical rainforests. Today‚ a few of
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ENDANGERED DUE TO OIL PALM TREE 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
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organisms are associated in a relationship in which one benefits from the relationship and the other is not affected much. The two animals are called commensals. This is one type of symbiosis. An example is bromeliads (plants living on trees in rainforests) and frogs; the frogs get shelter and water from the bromeliad‚ but the bromeliad is unaffected. Predator/ Prey- Predators also use camouflage so they can sneak up on their preThe Bengal tiger is a carnivore. It eats boars‚ wild oxen‚ monkeys‚
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Animals Kinkajou: honey bear Genus:potos Spiecies:flavus habitat Fifty degrees North to fifteen degrees South‚ and thirty-five degrees to sixty-five degrees in the Amazon Rainforest lives a mammal called the kinkajou. The kinkajou mostly sleeps in the upper canopy‚ hiding in the holes of the trees during the day napping. It’s a cute little animal with the body grows from 16 to 30 inches; its tail grows from 15 to 33 inches. Its shoulder height is up to 10 inches and it weights 3 to 10 pounds
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for growing rubber and producing palm oil. The capital of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia is a RIC (recently industrialised country). There are two areas of the country‚ mainland Malaysia and East Malaysia. East Malaysia is on an island called Borneo and it is surrounded by the South China Sea. Sarawak‚ East Malaysia borders with the countries Brunei‚ Sabah and Kalimantan (Indonesia). It is an ecotourism destination and a place of outstanding beauty. It has some international hotels positioned
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