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Rainforest in Brazil

Rainforest in Brazil. By Angel Kong and Jordan Ramos. Outline. Why are rainforests being destroyed in Brazil? New problems in Amazon rainforest Brazilian Deforestation ( Table ) 2 slides How to save rainforests? Pictures. Why are the rainforests being destroyed in Brazil?.

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Rainforest in Brazil

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  1. Rainforest in Brazil By Angel Kong and Jordan Ramos

  2. Outline • Why are rainforests being destroyed in Brazil? • New problems in Amazon rainforest • Brazilian Deforestation ( Table ) 2 slides • How to save rainforests? • Pictures

  3. Why are the rainforests being destroyed in Brazil? • Deforestation - burning, cutting, and stepping • Setting fire • Main reason by people- to clear land and for cattle ranching • Amazon rainforest - 38% of deforestation take place in Amazon due to cattle ranching • Gold can found in Amazon rainforests • Oil extraction - where companies trick the people of the rainforest into giving them their land so they can search for and extract oil, specifically petroleum

  4. New problems in Amazon Rainforest • Hydroelectric dams • More dams = more flooding • Solving: not build any more dams

  5. How to save rainforests? • 5 ways • Teach • Restore • Encourage • Establish • Support

  6. Brazilian Deforestation

  7. Brazilian Deforestation

  8. Pictures Deforestation in the Amazon Clear-cutting in the Amazon (Plane View) rainforest

  9. Pictures Deforestation Animation

  10. Pictures Deforest Deforestation

  11. Summary • In Brazil, rainforests are deforest • Gold found and oil extraction are in Amazon Rainforest • New problem in Amazon Rainforest is hydroelectric dams • 5 ways to save rainforests

  12. References • “Why are the rainforests being destroyed in Brazil?”data are available at http://www.pokemonultimate.wanadoo.co.uk/Rainforest.html, accessed at 6-6-06 • “Brazilian Deforestation” are available at http://www.mongabay.com/brazil_deforestati on.htm, accessed at 6-6-06 • K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. WorldOf Earth Science. Vol 1. Michigan. The Gale Group, Inc, 2003

  13. References • K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. WorldOf Earth Science. Vol 2. Michigan. The Gale Group, Inc, 2003 • The Animation. http://www.claybennett.com/pages/animation_08.html, accessed at 6-7-06

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