Natural Resources and Energy in the Rainforests The beauty‚ majesty‚ and timelessness of a primary rainforest is indescribable. It is impossible to capture on film‚ to describe in words‚ or to explain to those who have never had the awe-inspiring experience of standing in the heart of a primary rainforest. Rainforests have evolved over millions of years to turn into the incredibly complex environments they are today. Rainforests represent a store of living and breathing renewable natural resources
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The Amazon Rainforest is the largest tropical rainforest in the world. The majority of the rainforest is sited in Brazil with 60% of the rainforest contained there. It is also spread throughout other nations in South America such as Peru‚ Columbia‚ Venezuela‚ Ecuador‚ Bolivia‚ Guyana‚ Suriname‚ and French Guiana. (See Figure 1) Land clearing has become a major contributing factor in the destruction of Amazon Forest and the development of its land. This is predominantly due to human activities which
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Amazon Rainforest Essay‚ I will be choosing the Rubber Tappers. Rubber tappers are a group of people who tap rubber trees for a living. They want to keep rubber tapping but‚ the loggers are cutting the trees down. All they want is protected areas where they can keep rubber tapping. Only the Brazilian government can approve of that. Rubber tappers first came to the Amazon rainforest in the 1870’s. Most rubber tappers live in Brazil‚ near the Amazon rainforest‚ or in the Amazon rainforest. Rubber
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Every second‚ 1.5 acres of trees are cut down in a rainforest. That’s equivalent to two football pitches per second. At this rate‚ the Amazon rainforest will become devoid of life by 2030. Cutting down trees not only damages large habitual areas of the estimated 30 million people who live in the rainforest along with the animals they solely depend on‚ but affects the environment in many harmful ways. This can be through rapid and violent changes in the climate‚ an unbalanced ratio of carbon dioxide
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There has been an ongoing debate on how the Amazon Rainforest should be exploited. The Forest is a vast 1.7 billion acre tropical rainforest located in South America. It covers 60% of Northwestern Brazil. Because of many resources the Rainforest possess‚ there are different views on how the forest should be harnessed. For example‚ some believe that the forest’s trees be used for rubber tapping or be extracted from tree sap to improve Brazil’s economy. Loggers believe that they should be able to continue
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Tropical Rainforests There are many different ecosystems on this planet. They include tundra’s‚ desserts‚ grasslands‚ etc. However‚ the tropical rainforest is truly the world’s most diverse biome in both structure and species diversity. The Tropical rainforest is characterized by a dense growth of trees and by the continuously canopy that is formed by the broad- leaved Evergreen trees. There is also large amounts of precipitation annually and there is no dry season‚ which is a major factor for the
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better understand the Earth’s environment and its ecosystems is to categorize it into groups called biomes. Biomes are arranged by specific environmental conditions (i.e. rainfall‚ temperature‚ and humidity) and house specific types of vegetation or factors that allow organisms adapt to these environments. Cataloguing organisms that share similar adaptations makes it easier to study all the environments found on Earth (Lomolino et al‚ 2017). The profile of the Earth and all its biomes have changed
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Rain Forests Rainforests cover only 6% of the earth’s surface but they house more than half of the world’s animal and plant population. Rainforests have beautiful layered ecosystems and water features that home massive amounts of living things. There is a very diverse food chain in rainforests. Deforestation is limiting what the rainforest can provide to the world. Rainforests are very large forests that help the earth in many ways. They house many plants‚ animals‚ insects‚ and even
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Introduction In Dunedin there are many different plants and trees scattered across different areas. This can be a forest‚ flower fields‚ grasslands‚ or a mix up. How did they get there and how long will they survive there? The aim of todays study is to look at the mix of habitats down by the Water of Leith‚ and see if the riverside environment resembles the theory about plant strategies and vegetation. The theory roughly states that if conditions allow it‚ trees will dominate a plant community‚ and
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Saving the Rainforest If someone or something was in danger‚ would you do anything to help? Well the world’s rainforest are currently disappearing at a rate of 6‚000 acres every hour which is equivalent to almost 3‚500 football fields. If you have been unaware‚ rainforests are well on their way to extinction. Rainforest once covered 14% of the earth’s surface; now they cover about 6% and experts say the remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years. Commercial logging is the
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