Rain Forest Land Uses

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Rain Forest Land Uses
Vanishing Biodiversity Rain forest has
biodiversity50 of all plant, animal species in
the world - 50 million acres of rain forest
worldwide destroyed annually for timber and crops

• Pressures
• Over half of Amazon rain forest is in Brazil
• - 200 mil acres destroyed annually - 2020
  projection
• Many medicines and species still undiscovered

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Environmental Concerns Deforestationcutting
down and clearing away trees Rain forests
regulate climate absorb carbon dioxide, produce
oxygen - carbon dioxide builds up in
atmosphere, prevents heat from escaping into
space - global warming atmospheric
temperature rises, weather patterns
change
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