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Rain Forest
Jana Janakieva
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DISAPPERING
- We are losing 137 plant and animal species every
single day - 78 million acres lost every year
- Massive deforestation brings with it many
consequences
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People living in the Rain Forests
- What Is Happening To The Forest People?
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Deforestation for agriculture and ranching,
mining, and road building all pose major threats
to this region. Other threats include introduced
species, small-scale logging, wildlife
exploitation, and hydroelectric projects.
Increased colonization of the area will be of
great concern in the near future and will bring
more hunting pressure. Uncontrolled tourism is a
subject of current debate, though the long-term
effects are not yet known.
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Forest Fires
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Farming
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Road building
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Some facts
- Rainforests currently provide sources for
one-fourth of today's medicines - 70 percent of the plants found to have
anticancer properties are found only in the
rainforest - Eight out of ten children are now saved, rather
than eight of ten children dying from leukemia. - Experts now believe that if there is a cure for
cancer and even AIDS, it will probably be found
in the rainforest.
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Can the Rainforest be saved
- How Much Rainforest Remains?
- Why Won't The Rainforest Grow Back?
- The Solution to Rainforest Destruction
- Raintree - A Leader in Implementing the Solution
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Organizations
- Amazon Watch Works with indigenous and
environmental organizations in the Amazon
Rainforest Basin to defend the environment and
advance indigenous peoples' rights.www.amazonwatc
h.org - Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) Conservation,
education, and research in the Amazon
basin.www.ethnobotany.org - Pachamama Alliance Organization to halt the
destruction of rainforests and the loss of its
indigenous culture and to blend the knowledge and
wisdom from indigenous cultures and the modern
world.www.pachamama.org - Tree 4 Life Plant a tree in the Brazilian
rainforest.www.tree4life.com - Amazon Center for Environmental Education and
Research Foundation (ACEER) Promoting
conservation of the Peruvian Amazon through
educational programs, research, land acquisition,
and ecology workshops.www.aceer.org - BuyTheRainforest.Net Working to buy the land
which encompasses the cloud and rain forests in
the Amazon region of Peru, and establishing it as
an eternal preserve for medical
research.www.buytherainforest.net - Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA)
Creating a tropical rainforest protected area
system with project activity spread out over an
area larger than Western Europe.worldwildlife.org
/forests/projects/arpa.cfm
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