Why are rainforests being destroyed in Brazil?

By.Judy Chang & Sharon Jung

Earth Science

Period. 5

Outline

• Do you know anything about the rainforest?

• What are the effects?• Do you know what it looks like?• What can we do?• What have we taught you?• Where did we get our information?

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Rainforest facts

• Rainforest- a very dense, relatively warm wet forest.

• There are two types of rainforests: temperate and tropical.

• 20% of the world’s oxygen comes from the Amazon rainforest.

• Tropical rainforest deforestation results in the loss of 100 species per day.

Rainforests in Brazil

• The Amazon rainforest is in Brazil

• The biggest rainforest in the world

• Half of brazil is forested terrain

• The rainforests in Brazil are tropical rainforests.

What is happening to the rainforest?

• Being destroyed for profits

• Used for resources like Timber

• Land being used for raising cattle

• deforestation

Effects

• Percentage of oxygen from rainforest decreasing

• 70,000 people had to leave to build one dam.

• Deforestation threatens many species of tree frogs

• Release of carbon in the vegetation could accelerate global warming

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• Deforestation has made Brazil one of the top greenhouse gas producers

• Tribal homelands are destroyed

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Solution

• Planting trees• Decreasing the need for the amount of products that are harvested from the rainforests.

• Tell other people about the deforestation of the Amazon and what the effects are.

• Recycle.• Don’t cut as many trees

References

• Scott Lewis (1990), The rainforest Book, Living Planet press, Los Angeles, CA

• Rainforest facts available at Http://www.rain-tree.com/facts.htm (June 5, 2006)

• Al Gore (2006), An Inconvenient Truth, Rodale, Emmaus, PA

• Rainforest information available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Rainforest

• Mike Tidwell (1996), Amazon Stranger: A Rainforest Battles Big Oil, Lyons & Burford Publishers, New York NY