Modern-Day Plague Deforestation is clearing Earth’s forests on a massive scale‚ often resulting in damage to the quality of the land. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area‚ but swaths the size of Panama are lost each and every year. The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation. Forests are cut down for many reasons‚ but most of them are related to money or to people’s need to provide for their families.The biggest
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The Devastation of Deforestation According to National Geographic‚ forests cover about thirty percent of the Earth’s land area. This percentage is falling drastically. Deforestation is the process of forests being cleared through logging and/or burning to use for timber or to use the area for other purposes. Many estimate that the Earth’s rainforests will be completely wiped out in 100 years. The World Wildlife Fund is the leading organization in the fight to prevent deforestation. Along with protesting
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Deforestation Mitigation Strategies Tropical rainforests cover approximately thirty percent of the earth’s land area‚ around 2.5 million square miles‚ the size of the lower 48 states‚ despite the fact 80‚000 acres (32‚000) hectares are destroyed per day for economic reasons. Tropical rainforests are biodiversity hotspots. Rainforests are carbon sinks absorbing about half the carbon dioxide humans release into the atmosphere. Continued deforestation will affect the entire world with the ecological
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Deforestation is simply the means of removing trees and forests‚ generally through burning or cutting. In this paper I will cover South America where deforestation mainly takes place as needs in agriculture rise requiring more land. In the tropical regions there are mainly three types of deforestation that take place. Firstly‚ in poor economy countries such as South America‚ poor citizens turn to agriculture for feeding their families. Farmers use agricultural settlements and then cut down acres
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PESTEL analysis of Indonesia | October 3 2009 | SUBMITTED TO: MR. SUNDERASAN SUBMITTED BY: Hitesh GoyalNirupan ChakravarthiSainath.V MBA 12 and PGPRM-9 | | Introduction: Indonesia is one of the largest countries in South-east Asia‚ between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean which contain mainly mountainous and covered with rain forests‚ swamps and consists over 13000 islands. Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia. Indonesia declared its independence on 17th August 1945 from Japan but
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Rainforest Deforestation LA298: Associate Degree Capstone June 30‚ 2012 Rainforest Deforestation The world’s rainforests are disappearing at an alarming rate and the consequences could be devastating. Global climate change is accelerating‚ due in part to deforestation of the rainforests around the world which help to maintain the hydrologic cycle of the Earth‚ and play a large part in cleaning the air that the population breathes. There exists a diverse collection of species in these ecosystems
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Biodiversity: Deforestation Deforestation is a threat to biodiversity because deforestation increases the chances of animal/plant extinction. In the Amazon‚ around 17% of the forest has been lost in the last 50 years. Causes of Deforestation Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forest in order to make the land available for other uses such as… For fuel Space for housing and urbanization To create commercial items such as paper‚ furniture‚ and homes To create rare and highly priced
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In Brazil‚ the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest is a very big issue. In this report I will explain the connections of the deforestation to the Brazilian environment and economic development‚ and for extra reference I will relate these to the included map. The deforestation of the Amazon seems to be necessary to economic development in Brazil. Along with this‚ sadly the Amazon rainforest is being demolished at a alarming rate and it is causing major environmental issues including loss of bio-diversity
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Eden Marley Professor Eze Energy and the Environment 4/December/2012 Deforestation in the Amazon Deforestation‚ the destruction of natural rain forests‚ has been a major problem in the world today; caused primarily by human activities for development and population expansion. One of the main forests that have been affected is the Amazon Rainforest in South America. The main causes of deforestation in the Amazon are cattle ranching‚ subsistence and commercial agriculture‚ infrastructure‚
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Dr. Katy Koch Writing 101: Research Paper 11 March 2010 Amazon Deforestation The Amazon rainforest the largest tropical area in the world‚ a vast and humid area where thousands of species of mammals‚ fish and insects have been unidentified by human; thus being the largest rainforest in the world‚ it is also the largest area of deforestation where football fields after fields are taken down a minute. The Amazon Deforestation being a growing issue amongst society in this generation can be prominently
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