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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?
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.
Forest Fires
FarmingFarming
Paper
Road building
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.
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
Organizations• Amazon Watch
Works 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 Alliance Organization 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 Life Plant 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.Net Working 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