The decline of the forests. Every second an area the size of a football field in the rain forest...

The decline of the forests

Every second an area the size of a football field in the rain forest around

the world vanishes.

Rain forests covered 14% of the earth’s

surface. But by now they cover 6%.

The experts believe that the rest of the

rain forest will vanish within the next 40

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Over half the species of animals, insects

and plants will vanish because of

the destruction of the rain forest..

137 species disappear every

day. This amounts to 50,000

annually.

121 medications are being created by using the plants of the rain forest but only 1% of

the plants have been proven by scientists.

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500 years ago there were10 million Indians

living in the rain forest, nowadays

there are fewer than 200,000.

In Brazil alone 90 of the traditional tribes in the rain

forest have disappeared since

the 1900s.



Satellite Pictures• The satellite pictures on the next slides show a

section of the rain forest in Bolivia in 1975, 1992 and 2000.

• What do you think are the red areas and the white areas?

• What is the difference between the three pictures?

• Discuss your views in pairs.

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Information

• The red areas in the pictures show live trees whilst the white areas show where the forest has been deforested.

• Did you notice the enormous difference between the three pictures though they were not taken over a long period.

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