Saving the Rainforest If someone or something was in danger‚ would you do anything to help? Well the world’s rainforest are currently disappearing at a rate of 6‚000 acres every hour which is equivalent to almost 3‚500 football fields. If you have been unaware‚ rainforests are well on their way to extinction. Rainforest once covered 14% of the earth’s surface; now they cover about 6% and experts say the remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years. Commercial logging is the
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In the rainforest ecosystem‚ everything is connected to one another. There is an interconnectedness existing in this ecosystem. To continue to function‚ the ecosystem depends on the interactions between the biotic and abiotic factors. An ecosystem survives by a combination of energy flow and matter recycling. To understand the interconnectedness of the ecosystem‚ food webs and food chains could be observed. Each organism depends on each other to survive and maintain their populations. In the food
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imagine how the world looks like without trees? Goor morning ladies and gentlemen‚ We present you “The trees that dropped their leaves” On one fine day‚ The sun was shining so brightly‚ The wind was blowing cool and swiftly‚ All the trees in the rainforest were having a big meeting. Yet‚ everyone was upset and grumbling. Why? Why they were sad? Why? Why they were grumbling? People were cutting down trees all over the place………timber! It simply wasn’t save anymore! “Why are they cutting us down anyway
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into the highly controversial battle between Texaco and the Amazon Jungle of Ecuador. The film follows the lawyers’s fight to improve the jungle’s living environment and restore the original beauty of the Amazon. Texaco has been contaminating the rainforest for around three decades‚ poisoning the water‚ air and land. The pollution has created a ‘death zone’ that has been increasing the rates of cancer‚ leukemia‚ birth defects‚ and several other health illnesses. This ‘David and Goliath’ story brings
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Deforestation is a construction that human cut down the trees to make land available for other uses. It is also considered to be one of the contributing factors to global climate change. Without trees‚ forestlands can quickly become barren land. We are losing the oxygen produced by the trees and it takes hundreds of years in the making to grow another one. Nowadays‚ each country is facing the deforestation problems. Looking at the core concept of deforestation in Amazon through both sides‚ we can
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Amazon In Need What do you think of when someone mentions the Amazon Rainforest to you? Some might say an exotic jungle full of some of the most unique plants and animals you have ever seen. Well this might surprise you but that exotic jungle you might be thinking of is getting cut down for multiple reasons at a shocking rate of 150 acres per hour. Well I’m personally here to say that cutting down this extraordinary gift of mother nature will in fact cause more harm than leaving
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Guava is a small tropical tree that grows up to 35 feet tall; it is widely grown for its fruit in tropics. It is a member of the Myrtaceae family‚ with about 133 genera and more than 3‚800 species. The leaves and bark of P. guajava tree have a long history of medicinal uses that are still employed today (Nwinyi et al.‚ 2008). In the view of the immense medicinal importance of P. guajava plant evidenced in the various studies mentioned above and also corroborated in a recent review article by Kamath
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not heard. I am afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in the ozone. I am afraid to breathe the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in it. In my life‚ I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals‚ jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterfilies‚ but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see. All this is happening before our eyes and yet we act as if we have all the time we want and all the solutions. I’m only a child and I don’t have all
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painters‚ Félix Auguste Clément and Jean-Léon Gérôme.[10] Essentially he was self-taught and is considered to be a naïve or primitive painter. His best known paintings depict jungle scenes‚ even though he never left France or saw a jungle. Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) was exhibited in 1891‚ and Rousseau received his first serious review‚ when the young artist Félix Vallotton wrote: "His tiger surprising its prey ought not to be missed; it’s the alpha and omega of painting." Yet it was more than
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African tree toads live in tropical lowland forest. The African tree toad is mostly found in the central part of Africa‚ the main countries are: Cameroon‚ Equatorial Guinea‚ Gabon‚ Nigeria and Democratic republic of congo. The African tree toad’s habitat must have plentiful water supply for them to survive. In order for all living organisms to survive‚ food must also be available. The Nectophryne afra is a carnivorous amphibian‚ they eat small invertebrates‚ like insects‚ worms and spiders. There
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