Jana Janakieva

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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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Paper
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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