The rainforest is an area of over two million square miles located around the Amazon river in South America, with average rainfalls that can exceed ten meters a year. The rainforest has the greatest amount of biodiversity of any area in the world. Over fifty percent of all animal and plant life on the planet can be found in the rainforest. Importantly, many of the medications and drugs that physicians use on a daily basis to treat patients are derived from plants found in the Amazon rainforest. Because of the sheer number of plants, over one-quarter of the oxygen on the earth is produced in the rainforest through photosynthesis. For these reasons and many others, the Amazon rainforest is extremely important to the health of our planet and ourselves. …show more content…
The greatest threat to the rainforest comes from human beings. Commercial logging or the cutting down of trees and other vegetation, for human use is the number one danger to the existence of the rainforest. Trees and lumber from rainforests are very valuable and loggers come from all over the world to cut down the trees in order to harvest lumber. Although this type of logging is regulated, there are many illegal or “wildcat” loggers who go into the rainforest at night or in the rain, cut down acres of trees, and leave without ever having been seen by the authorities. These illegal loggers use a process called “clear cutting”, where they cut down everything in sight. Because they do not replant the trees and plants that they destroy, if left unchecked, eventually these loggers would completely destroy the rainforest. Even if the areas they destroy are small, it changes the underlying ecosystem by letting in light and rain where darkness and relative dryness were
My team has discovered a new population of sloths in the Amazon Rainforest. The team has a job of figuring out three things regarding these sloths. The team has to determine if the new population is evolving, how it is related to other sloth populations near it, and if it is a different species than the other sloth populations.
The Joshua tree has two ways of obtaining and saving water through its root systems, it has a shallow system that runs just beneath the ground and it has a deeper system that goes about 30 feet under the earth and is larger in
During my search for a project in which the World Bank , or the IMF, created and then led it being more problematic than resolving, I found many that were positive in a sense. . but have noticed a constant lack of responsibility when it came to concerns of natural habitats and historical landmarks.
Earth faces many problems. But the worst of them all is rainforest destruction. People are cutting down our trees in our rainforests. We need our rainforests on our Earth. Rainforest destruction is the most serious threat to our Planet!
When forests are cut down it disturbs the climate and weather pattern on earth and threatens millions of organism and plants already living there. There's consequences to these actions; human are forgetting about the lives that lives in these forest. Animals are either left to die or having to move away and find another place to live, leaving the place they once called home. Human activities has also caused climate change. This has huge effects on the rainforest. According to the FAO's Global Forest Resource Assessment in 2015, forest destruction are happening frequently. This causes damages to the quality of the forest decreasing the chances of goods that are able to be produced. Human activities not only cause harm to the animals and creatures that live there but also to their own health is in danger. 250 different species of animals are found in the United states and Canada but their population are slowly decreasing due to forest depletion. The world resources institution guessed that around 1990 and 2020 that deforestation would cause 5-15% of the species in the world to be
Have you ever thought about what the Tropical Rainforest is? Where the rainforest is located, the animals, climate, dangers or threats to the forest? Some people think that the rainforest is just some other forest, but their wrong! The rainforest is the most important forest in the U.S. You should go check it out!
The Amazon Rainforest is the largest and most biodiverse tract of tropical rainforest in the world. Some of the different groups that are interested in the Amazon Rainforest are the Native Amazonians, Rubber Tappers, Loggers, Settlers, Environmental Groups, and Cattle Ranchers.All of the groups in the Amazon all desire or want parts of the Amazon Rainforest.Some of the groups just want more land and some just want power.
They wanted to continue their traditional way of life. The Native Amazonians came to the rainforest in 1960. Also, -did you know that the rainforests cover about 6 percent of the Eearth’s surface. A thousand years ago rainforests covered 12 percent of Eearth’s surface. Loggers,Rubber trappers,Settlers and Cattle Ranchers came to the Amazon rainforest in the 1960s. Men in the rainforest do hunting. They hunt deer ,monkey, and tapir. The father,mother and children go fishing. Woman take care of the children and cook. What do the Cattle Ranchers do in the Amazon Rainforest? What do the Native Amazonians do in the
Trees stretch to the sky, weathered by centuries of age. Golden rays of sunlight filter through the leafy canopy, but seldom reach the forest floor. Here it is dark and cold. The air is humid, drops of water collect on the petals of tropical plants. Flowers and leafs are a rainbow of colors, pink, blue and green.
The Native Amazonians want to preserve the Amazon Rainforest because it is their home and has been for the past 12,000 years and they don’t seem to be moving anytime soon. One and a half acres of rainforest is being cut down every second. The Amazon is being destroyed at the rate of 20,000 acres per year. It is predicted that the Amazon will be gone in only 50 years. They don’t know anything else but home.
My essay is about how we as a planet should protect the Rainforest because it gives life and a home to many animals.The trees in Rainforest produce oxygen and help with the air we breath. If the trees are cut down animals would relocate to human populated areas where they may be harmed or the air may become more polluted, which can cause damage to the ozone layer. According to different articles, 20% of the worlds oxygen is produced by Rainforest, however, if the loggers continue to cut the trees in the future there will be no more animals in the forest. In the 1960’s Logger came to the Rainforest by that time, more than 80,000 acres have been destroyed.
One of the major causes of rainforest destruction is logging. While logging can be carried out in a manner that reduces damage to the environment, most logging in large rainforests can be very destructive and harmful. Rainforests that once grew over 14 % of the land on Earth now cover only 6 %. These forests produce vital oxygen and provide homes for wildlife and humans. More than half of the Earth’s rainforests have already been lost forever due to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.
I think it is not a myth that the rainforest was once pristine. Although Mann's study suggests that large swathes of the Amazon where farmed intensively, I find his evidence dubious and am more inclined to agree with Barlow. Barlow provides evidence that only a small fraction of the rainforest was altered by pre-Columbians, citing that although there would have been high impact activities such as ADES, settlements, enrichment planting, these would have only taken place on small scale when compared to the total surface area of the Amazon. Barlow also argues that the two main competing hypothesis claims it existed either as a ‘‘pristine forest’’ or a ‘‘cultural parkland’’ where in either case the amazon rainforest would have been vegetated prior to human intervention. This leads me to believe that the rainforest would have been a forested area because it is unlikely human settlement would have occurred if no resources already existed. Also, human settlement generally does not occur in deeply forested areas which would leave the heavily forested areas relatively untouched.
Known as the Amazon rainforest or Amazon basin is a very pretty and fascinating rainforest to visit. The Amazon rainforest is also referred to as the “Lungs of the Planet” because it produces more than 20% of the world's oxygen.
Moreover, tropical rainforests consist of a variety of species. These type of species are also organized according to the layer that they belong in. Animals that live on the floor layer are most of the largest that inhabit the rainforest and are also carnivores and herbivores. Not all of tropical rainforests have the same animals, but jungle cats are the ones that are mostly present in rainforests. Depending on the continent, tigers, pumas, leopards, jaguars, and ocelots will be present. The jaguar and the tiger are currently endangered animals so are not seen as much as the leopards. Some other species that accompany the rest of the forest floor animals include mongoose, tapirs, Southern Cassowaries, okapis, armadillos, rainforest pigs and gorillas. Rainforest pigs include wild boars and their