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The Amazon Rainforest
The Amazon Rainforest is the world’s greatest natural resource. It has been estimated that this forest has existed for over fifty-five million years. It has a total area of two and a half million square miles and is located in the Amazon River basin along the equator. This rainforest makes up for more than half of the world’s remaining rainforests. The rainforest is bordered by nine different countries which are Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana. The region consists of a variety of ecosystems from natural savanna to swamps. Animals, plants, and humans all are present inside of the rainforest. This rainforest is responsible for many things and events that go on in the world. It affects people around the world socially, politically, and environmentally. Not only does this rainforest get explored, it also gets destroyed by human beings ("The Amazon Rainforest", 1999).
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Deforestation is the process of cutting, clearing, and removing parts of a rainforest and turning it into less bio-diverse ecosystems such as cropland or plantations. Agriculture is the biggest lead on deforestation. Farmers will use the slash-and-burn method to clear out space for their own crops or for grazing livestock. Loggers also cut down trees, which provides for the world’s wood and paper. Over half of the work is done illegally when the loggers build roads to get access to more of the forest. Both types of jobs leads to further deforestation. It is estimated that every second over two and a half acres of the rainforest is torn down. To this day over eighteen percent of the Amazon rainforest has been cleared, which is about the size of France. Sometimes there is also unintentional deforestation that is caused by wildfires which prevents the growth of young trees ("Amazon Destruction",

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Subject- Deforestation affects majority of the population, including people and animals, across the nation and in my community. Situation or Problem- Deforestation is the action of eliminating trees, in forests, by cutting them down. The objective of deforestation is to create more land for construction and land establishments with the idea of not restoring thee trees back or replacing them. How it affects my community- Deforestation can disrupt the homes of many animals, including birds and fish.

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The Amazon Rain forest is losing its natural landscape more and more as the loggers who are cutting down trees and removing its importance to the world. Cattle ranchers are also a big problem to the amazon rain forest because they are removing land just for the cattle to have more space. About 20% of the world's fresh air is found coming from the Amazon Rainforest also the environmentalist are helping the Amazon a lot by letting tourist to learn about the rainforest and the donations and money they receive goes to the rain forest so they can help the amazon survive this terrible crime. The Environmentalist want to help by slowing down the clearing of the rainforest.

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Secondly, a look into how they use the rainforest and it’s resources, and thirdly a final argument on pro’s and con’s of the Amazonians. Lastly, a paragraph in conclusion to this essay. Once, there were as many as 10 million people living in the rainforest (when it still covered 14% of the land’s surface), in this day and age the number is much smaller. The native Amazonians came to the amazon rainforest over 12,000 years ago, longer than any other group in the rainforest. Their families have lived there

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But was destroying it by putting lots of plants in the same area then it losses nutrition then they have to go to a new spot and do the same thing again and again. I also talked about how the ranchers destroyed the rainforest because cattle don’t belong in the rainforest and cattle eat grass and when they eat all the grass they move to a new spot and they have to cut down the trees to build a house and live there until the cattle has eaten all the grass and there's no more. The logger which cuts down lots of trees and losses animals homes. Last but not least the environmental groups, they try to save the rainforest because we destroyed it in the first

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When this happens it causes adverse effects on the environment. It can be done in a variety of ways from cutting to burning. Either way mass deforestation is bad and needs to stop before it is too late. One culprit of our deforestation is

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There are many characteristic that make this rainforest very distinguishing, especially things such as the rainfall and species diversity. There are a number of significant abiotic features of this rainforest are severe rainfall causing flooding, little light reaches the ground, and because it rains all year round the soil is always moist. The rainforest is known to have the biggest tropical trees, one called the Bull

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Rainforest are home to half of all the living animal and plants on the planet. Not only is the rainforest home to millions on species but it also contains remedies and medications. The amount of species and plants show how large the ecosystem is. Tropical rain forest: are located in a belt around the earth near the equator, help regulate world climate and play

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The Brazilian Amazon is home to 40% of the world’s tropical rainforest. Incidentally, it also has the world’s fastest rate of deforestation. Tropical Rainforests around the world are lost at the rate of one acre per second with the average rate of Brazilian Amazon being such that 2 million hectares of forest land are cleared every year. There are multiple causes for this extensive rate of deforestation and this paper will address four such causes namely (1) rapid population growth, (2) industrial logging and mining, (3) changing spatial patterns of deforestation, and (4) wildfires. Moreover, there are several Brazilian state policies that encourage deforestation practices of which this paper will look at five key aspects – (1) taxes on agricultural income, (2) rules of land allocation, (3) land taxes, and (4) tax credit schemes and subsidized credits.

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Yet, as someone invested on knowing how tree loss can be reduced, it is incredibly worthwhile to look to the changes in the rate of deforestation for a particular area. When thinking of drastic deforestation, my thoughts go to that of the Amazon Rainforest, termed the “lungs of the Earth.” Investigation From a mathematical perspective, rates can be viewed from a kinematics perspective, giving one more information that the rate itself does. The following shows the annual deforestation occurring in the Amazon region, according to Rhett A. Butler of Mongabay.

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Planet earth is comprised by different ecosystems, which each one maintains the cycle and balance of storages and flows in a stable system. Certain ecosystems need from other ecosystems since they are the base to maintain balance. One of them is the tropical rain forest, which is best known as the base-structure of many other systems, such as the water cycle, the carbon cycle, and the biomass system on planet earth. Therefore, The Amazon tropical rain forest is considered one of the most important biomes due to its extension through nine different countries. However, taking in account its importance, the Amazon is being overexploited over the last few years since this system provides different natural resources that are indispensable for human

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The rapid destruction of woodlands or removal of trees from forests is known as deforestation. Every year, vast areas of forests are cleared to make way for agriculture and development. Tropical rainforests play important ecological roles: 1. Rainforests are the oldest ecosystems on Earth and house almost half of the world’s flora and fauna. 2.

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When deforestation occurs, the wood of trees releases extensive amounts of carbon dioxide that only adds onto the greenhouse effect. An example of deforestation comes in the form of urbanization and the act to industrialize further within a country. In the last thirty years, India’s forest only covers 21 percent of the nation (23,716 Industrial Projects, 2016). Based on governmental information and data, lands are being curbed aside in order to organize commercial projects. These acts aren’t just happening in India.

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Argumentative Essay Zeena Morar 12J Climate change is currently being felt around the world and unless the developed world makes substantial changes to its selfish ways, we are all doomed to face the fires of hell on earth. One third of the earth’s land is currently threatened as what we do to the air, land and water affects the balance of ecosystems and ultimately the world. The developed world uses wood for mining, building, furniture and paper. Saw and paper mills that are used to create these products, pollute the air and water.

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Introduction: Description: Deforestation is defined as the permanent destruction of forests in order to make land available for other uses. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 18 million acres of forest are lost each year. This equals to approximately 36 football fields of forest being cleared each minute. Though deforestation occurs all over the world, it’s the tropical forests which are being particularly targeted. Due to this countries such as Indonesia, Brazil, the Democratic republic of Congo and Thailand have a very

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When animals lose their habitat (Anadiplosis), they are not accustomed to their new surroundings and could potentially go extinct. Species depend on forests to survive and when the forests are cut down, the animals have nothing left. Forests are heavily depended on for resources and ways of life. The Pachamama Alliance Organization claims that, “the tropical rainforests of South America are responsible for 20% of earth’s oxygen.” This proves the earth relies greatly on forests and may suffer consequences because of the speedy rate trees are being cut

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