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Rain Forest

Rain Forest. Jana Janakieva. DISAPPERING. We are losing 137 plant and animal species every single day 78 million acres lost every year Massive deforestation brings with it many consequences. People living in the Rain Forests. What Is Happening To The Forest People?.

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Rain Forest

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  1. Rain Forest Jana Janakieva

  2. DISAPPERING • We are losing 137 plant and animal species every single day • 78 million acres lost every year • Massive deforestation brings with it many consequences

  3. People living in the Rain Forests • What Is Happening To The Forest People?

  4. Deforestation for agriculture and ranching, mining, and road building all pose major threats to this region. Other threats include introduced species, small-scale logging, wildlife exploitation, and hydroelectric projects. Increased colonization of the area will be of great concern in the near future and will bring more hunting pressure. Uncontrolled tourism is a subject of current debate, though the long-term effects are not yet known.

  5. Forest Fires

  6. Farming

  7. Paper

  8. Road building

  9. Some facts • Rainforests currently provide sources for one-fourth of today's medicines • 70 percent of the plants found to have anticancer properties are found only in the rainforest • Eight out of ten children are now saved, rather than eight of ten children dying from leukemia. • Experts now believe that if there is a cure for cancer and even AIDS, it will probably be found in the rainforest.

  10. Can the Rainforest be saved • How Much Rainforest Remains? • Why Won't The Rainforest Grow Back? • The Solution to Rainforest Destruction • Raintree - A Leader in Implementing the Solution

  11. Organizations • Amazon WatchWorks with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Rainforest Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights.www.amazonwatch.org • Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)Conservation, education, and research in the Amazon basin.www.ethnobotany.org • Pachamama AllianceOrganization to halt the destruction of rainforests and the loss of its indigenous culture and to blend the knowledge and wisdom from indigenous cultures and the modern world.www.pachamama.org • Tree 4 LifePlant a tree in the Brazilian rainforest.www.tree4life.com • Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation (ACEER)Promoting conservation of the Peruvian Amazon through educational programs, research, land acquisition, and ecology workshops.www.aceer.org • BuyTheRainforest.NetWorking to buy the land which encompasses the cloud and rain forests in the Amazon region of Peru, and establishing it as an eternal preserve for medical research.www.buytherainforest.net • Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA)Creating a tropical rainforest protected area system with project activity spread out over an area larger than Western Europe.worldwildlife.org/forests/projects/arpa.cfm

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