sacred city of Caral-supe‚ a few hours north of Lima‚ is speculated to be the oldest site engaged by humans discovered in the Americas. Its 1‚546-acre site dates back 5‚000 years‚ and is now considered one of the 7 Great Wonders. Peru is in the tropical Andes‚ which happens to contain about a sixth of all plant life in less than one percent of the world’s land area (71 interesting facts about Peru). Roughly one-third of the entire Peruvian population lives in the capital‚ Lima resulting in overpopulation
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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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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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Deforestation Mitigation Strategies Tropical rainforests cover approximately thirty percent of the earth’s land area‚ around 2.5 million square miles‚ the size of the lower 48 states‚ despite the fact 80‚000 acres (32‚000) hectares are destroyed per day for economic reasons. Tropical rainforests are biodiversity hotspots. Rainforests are carbon sinks absorbing about half the carbon dioxide humans release into the atmosphere. Continued deforestation will affect the entire world with the ecological
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classified as cold-blooded species. Currently‚ global predictions and statistics calculate regularly with different locations‚ it will be significant to research tropical species and several sites distinctly so as to reflect upon what
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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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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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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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narrow in the end and the top is shortening. In various parts of the world‚ the uses of this plant are very diverse. A multipurpose plant which providing food‚ and medicine to the people. This essay will discuss on how a pandan tree can be used as a tropical medicine and its effects. 38 year old Hellen‚ a mother to three beautiful daughters. Suffers from asthma and every time she has an asthma attack‚ she always relies on her medication which she gets from her previous medical checkup. But this time
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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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