Tropical Rainforest

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Tropical Rainforest

• Kate DePentu
• Stacey Randall
• Christine Daniel

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Where are the rainforest located?

• Rainforest grow on 4 continents
• South America
• Africa
• Asia
• Australia
• Near the Earths Equator, where sunlight and
  rainfall concentrate

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Inside the Rainforest

• Rainforest Layers
• Forest Floor
• Shrub Layer
• Under Storey
• Canopy
• Emergent Layer

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Derived from the Rainforest

• Prescription Drugs
• Pharmaceutical ingredients
• Oxygen
• 3000 Fruits
• Plants that are active against cancer

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Why is the Rainforest Important?

• It is a wealth of renewable sources- so long as
  we dont destroy them all
• Healthy Food
• Medicine
• The extensive diversity- A 25 acre area holds
  that same number of tree species as all of the US
  (around 700)

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How Can We Help?

• Recycle as much as possible- help save the Earth
• Grasspave http//www.grasspave.com
• Use more organic materials
• Reusable instead of disposable
• Donate
• Volunteer

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Organizations/Programs

• Amazon Conservation Team- http//www.amazonteam.or
  g/
• Eco-Travel- http//www.ecotravel.com
• Global Volunteer Network- http//www.volunteer.org
  .nz/
• Protect-An-Acre- http//www.ran.org/what_we_do/pro
  tectanacre/
• Race for the Rainforest- http//www.racefortherain
  forest.com/
• Rainforest Alliance- http//www.rainforest-allianc
  e.org

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What is Happening to the Rainforest?

• The rainforest is disappearing! Statistics show
  14 of the earths surface was once covered. Now a
  mere 6 remain. Experts even predict that in
  forty years the rainforest will be completely
  gone!
• DEFORESTATION
• The permanent destruction of forests and
  woodlands

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Why is the Rainforest Being Destroyed?

• The value of rainforest land is perceived as only
  the value of its timber by multi-national logging
  companies, and land owners.

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What are The Effects of Destroying the
Rainforest?

• We are losing 137 plant, animal and insect
  species every single day. That equates to 50,000
  species a year!
• Possible cures for life-threatening diseases
• Continuous extinction of Indigenous tribes and
  their accumulated knowledge of the medicinal
  value of rainforest species
• Losing half of the world's species of plants,
  animals and microorganisms

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Resources

• Rainforest Facts
• National Geographic
• Layers of the Tropical Rainforest
• Tropical Rainforest Plant