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BELL WORK
1.Open up your binder to the Journal tab.
2.Write a journal answering this question:
What happens to our world when we cut down trees and do not plant more?
Tropical Rainforests
Awe-inspiring Beautiful Indescribable
The Importance of Rainforests
Greencupboards.com“Lungs of Our Planet”
Reasons For Logging
"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Bush Meat Trade
The logging is opening up roads for the hunters.
Inhabitants of the Rainforest
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
http://room42.wikispaces.com
Indigenous Species to the Rainforest
Impacts on Inhabitants
http://news.mongabay.com
“Humanity is cutting down its forests,
apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.”-Isaac Asimov (1920-1992),
Impacts on the Soil and Climate
Nutrients are LOST.
The Sun was
BLOCKED.
Deforestation Rates
Global Warming
Global Warming cannot be fixed without Deforestation being fixed first…they go hand in hand.
Practice of selective logging • Choose and
identify mature trees before cutting down the trees
Setting aside land as Indian reserves • Set aside land
reserves/forests that only the Amazonian Indians can clear to build houses and grow food. They can’t sell these rights to anyone.
Setting aside protected areas • Protected area
by the government
• Left undisturbed to allow natural vegetation to grow
Stopping Deforestation
DEFORESTATION DESERTIFICATION