laws were enacted to protect forests. Today‚ 121 prescription drugs that are sold all over the world come from plant derived sources and 25 percent of Western medicine comes from rain forest ingredients. There may be cures for many diseases in the rainforest plants that we will never be able to discover. The U.S. National Cancer Institute states that there are 3‚000 plants that work against cancer cells and 70 percent of them are in the rain forest. Approximately 50‚000 species of
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are a variety of animals in rainforests. This includes many types of monkeys‚ frogs‚ gorillas‚ wild cats‚ birds‚ snakes‚ and insects. The amount of wildlife here is amazing‚ and the diversity of rainforests can’t be topped by any other region. Since i’ve arrived here‚ i’ve tried
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The Amazon River is the largest river in South America by volume. The Amazon River contains many wildlife and plant species. The Amazon River is in a rainforest in Brazil. The Amazon River has a lot of rare and exotic fish. The Amazon River has a lot of animals that will attack humans off of self defense‚ hunger‚ or aggression. Britannica.com The Amazon River is more than 4‚000 miles long. Fish are very common in this river it is a good place to go fishing. There are fish like pirarucu different
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shelter‚ and more. If the forests of the Amazon continue to perish‚ all of Brazil will be impacted by the consequences‚ which will then transfer into catastrophic alterations. Place describes what an area‚ such as the Amazonian rainforest‚ is like. This particular rainforest is wet‚ humid‚ and full of trees and wildlife. This “place” will switch over to vast‚ hot‚ empty farmland with the continuation of cutting the Amazonian trees. Altering “place” will lead to the death of wildlife‚ or the adaption
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Dear President of Brazil I am writing to inform you of how worries i am about the rainforest. It is getting cut down at a rate which the rainforests hasn’t got enough time to grow back. This means they are going to be totally gone in future time. This is being cause by the following... .Miners .Tree loggers .illegal tree loggers .Farmers .Tourism and cultural interests Rates of deforestation What do the miners want? South America is rich in natural resources and mining and minerals
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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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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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They are taking tons of water from the plants and animals that live in the forest. During the drought plants and animals don’t have the natural resources they need to survive. 2.) In the movie it stated that‚ they are taking tons of water from the rainforest. CBS News reported‚ that Nestling stated‚ "they are taking a small fraction of the water and they are monitoring the water levels of the spring and the wildlife in the park." The movies also stated that no one is monitoring the water and climate
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Emerald Forest John Boorman’s 1985 film "The Emerald Forest" begins with the point of view of a white family out on a picnic. Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) is the supervisor of a dam construction site on the edge of the Amazon rainforest‚ which looms menacingly. He warns his children to stay out of the forest‚ since there are dangerous things inside it. By the end of the film‚ the point of view becomes entirely reversed. It is the forest that is the safe haven and it is the outside "civilized" world
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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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