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Tropical Forests PRR - Who benefits from Deforestation and who loses? - 3 views

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  • Profits from deforestation range from near zero to thousand of dollars a hectare.In some places, there are huge incentives to convert or degrade forest.In Cameroon, oil palm and intensive cocoa cultivation has a net present value of more than $1,400 a hectare.In Brazil's cerrado, some conversions result in land values over $3,000 a hectare.And India offers very high values for land devoted to coffee cultivation in the Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot.
  • Taikan Ueoka on 04 Jun 12
     
    This page has some information on how much money can be made out of the rainforest
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The Rainforest: People, Animals and Facts * KidExplorers™ at ChristianAnswers... - 3 views

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    • Meredith :) GELSINGER
      Meredith :) GELSINGER on 04 Jun 12
       
      This is all about the rain forest people
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Rainforest Destruction - 2 views

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  • phdinawesomeness on 04 Jun 12
     
    Mostly contains negative impacts of building dams.
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    Is this helpful?
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Rainforest people - 2 views

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      Meredith :) GELSINGER on 04 Jun 12
       
      These are kids that live in the rainforests
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Rainforest Plants Used for Medicine - 1 views

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  • dodo8140 on 02 Jun 12
     
    This is the some things the scientists uses
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Amazon Rainforest still threatened by Cattle ranching - 1 views

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  • Emily Kaaresmaa on 23 May 12
     
    The Amazon rainforest is still under threat from cattle ranching. The forest is being cut down at an astonishingly fast rate as the need for grazing land increases. Since many can make a good living from cattle ranching the rainforest will continue to be destroyed.
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How cattle ranches are chewing up the Amazon rainforest | Greenpeace UK - 1 views

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  • Cattle ranching is now the biggest cause of deforestation in the Amazon, and nearly 80 per cent of deforested areas in Brazil are now used for pasture. The cattle industry has ballooned since the 1970s, giving Brazil the largest commercial cattle herd in the world. Since 2003, the country has also topped the world's beef export charts and the government plans to double its share of the market by 2018.
  • Deforestation is largely responsible for making Brazil the fourth largest greenhouse gas emitter, and the cattle industry also contributes a significant quantity of emissions in the form of bovine methane emissions (or cow farts if you want to be less tactful).
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Problems in the Amazon - 1 views

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  • rpercik on 04 Jun 12
     
    Rates of deforestation vary from one Amazon country to another, mostly because the factors that drive this process also vary across the region. In Brazil for instance, most clearing is carried out in large and middle-sized ranches for cattle pasture, whereas the role of small farmers clearing for agriculture is relatively more prevalent in other countries3.
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For a Living Amazon! - 1 views

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  • One in ten known species on Earth lives in the Amazon. Its forests contain 90-140 billion metric tons of carbon, the release of even a portion of which would accelerate global warming significantly. 30 million people living in the Amazon depend on its resources and services – not to mention many millions more living as far away as North America and Europe, but still within the Amazon’s far-reaching climatic influence.
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RAINFOREST LUMBER AND TIMBER AND PAPER COMPANIES - World Topics | Facts and Details - 1 views

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  • tharin on 05 Jun 12
     
    RAINFOREST LUMBER Tropical rainforests supply about one fifth of the world's industrial lumber. Logging companies claim that most of their logging is selective rather than clear cutting and that only 5 to 7 percent of wood taken from tropical forests is exported.
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Interesting Facts & Information: tourism, travel, culture, language, business... - 1 views

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  • When on an ecotour the holiday makers will usually be under the guidance on a naturalist or an expert on the area to help people observe, understand and appreciate the wildlife, fauna and flora. Ecotourism has become an ethical alternative in the tourism industry and is growing in popularity.
    • Vishuka Mathur
      Vishuka Mathur on 22 May 12
       
      This is referring to how Eco tourism attracts tourism in a country, giving a chance for the people to understand and experience the wild life.  
  • Amazon is home to 20% of the world's bird species, 20% of its plant species, 10% of its mammal species and 3000 species of fish. As a result it is a great place to go on holiday or vacation for an ecotour.
    • Vishuka Mathur
      Vishuka Mathur on 22 May 12
       
      Here we can see why is it good to live there and some statistics on the population of plants and more wild life.
  • A genuine ecotour should however offer the tourist the following elements: education, conservation, sustainable development and benefit to local people. If any of these elements are missing from a potential ecotourism operator then possibly think again.
    • Vishuka Mathur
      Vishuka Mathur on 22 May 12
       
      Here we can see how Eco tourism is done, and what all the Eco tour should cover up, including how it benefits the local people with education about wild life and its conservation, & how it's sustainable.
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Medicinal Treasures of the Rainforest: Discover the healing resources of the Amazon - 1 views

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  • A look at the botanical treasures, both known and undiscovered, that exist within tropical rainforests.
  • The abundant botanical resources of tropical forests have already provided tangible medical advances; yet only 1 percent of the known plant and animal species have been thoroughly examined for their medicinal potentials.
  • 20 or 25 percent of the world's plant species will be extinct by the year 2000.
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  • Approximately 7,000 medical compounds prescribed by Western doctors are derived from plants
  • These drugs had an estimated retail value of US$43 billion in 1985
  • For maladies ranging from nagging headaches to lethal contagions such as malaria, rainforest medicines have provided modern society with a variety of cures and pain relievers.
  • • Quinine, an aid in the cure of malaria, is an alkaloid extracted from the bark of the cinchona tree found in Latin America and Africa. • From the deadly poisonous bark of various curare lianas, used by generations of indigenous peoples in Latin America, has been isolated the alkaloid d-turbocuarine, which is used to treat such diseases as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and other muscular disorders. It also permits tonsillectomies, eye, abdominal and other kinds of surgery due to its anesthetic qualities. • From Africa, Madagascar's rosy periwinkle provides two important anti-tumor agents. One provides for a 99 percent chance of remission in cases of lymphocytic leukemia. The other offers a life in remission to 58 percent of Hodgkin's Disease sufferers. In 1960, only 19 percent had a chance for survival. Commercial sales of drugs derived from this one plant are about US$160 million a year. • Without wild yams from Mexico and Guatemala, society would be without diosgenin and cortisone, the active ingredients in birth control pills. Until recently this plant provided the world with its entire supply of diosgenin.
  • Finally, rainforest plants provide aids for research.
  • testing agents for potentially harmful food and drug products
  • Tropical forests offer hope for safer contraceptives for both women and men. The exponential growth of world population clearly demonstrates the need for more reliable and effectiv
  • e birth control methods. Worldwide, approximately 4,000 plant species have been shown to offer contraceptive possibilities.
  • The chemical components of plants that medicine men use in healing rites could conceivably be building blocks for new drugs or even cures for such scourges as cancer or AIDS.
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Uses of trees - 1 views

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      Namsai Sethpornpong on 22 May 12
       
      Trees for Obtention of Medicines and Natural Remedies: This is going to be my point about why I need to keep the Rainforest. I need to use this exotic plants to help me to come up with more medicines to benefit for us. 
  • Namsai Sethpornpong on 22 May 12
     
    This is about the uses of the trees and plants in the rain forest. 
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People of the Amazon Rainforest - 1 views

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  • 10 million
  • today there are less than 250,000 indigenous natives.
  • 215 ethnic groups speaking 170 different languages in an area composing 190 million acres of land – roughly twice the size of California.
    • Meredith :) GELSINGER
      Meredith :) GELSINGER on 22 May 12
       
      There are lots of groups but if we destroy the rain forests we wont have them anymore :(
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Benefits of deforestation - 1 views

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  • tharin on 05 Jun 12
     
    Whenever people talk about deforestation, usually the things that spring to mind are negative thoughts brought on mostly by media hypes and environmentalist drives. People think about global warming, depletion of natural resources, and the casual extinction of indigenous fauna and flora. Yet people don't seem to realize that there are actually quite a few benefits of deforestation.
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Benefits - 0 views

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  • natural attractions
  • advancing social, economic, and environmental objectives in developing countrie
  • ew opportunities for small-enterprise investment and employment
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  • protecting their biological resources.
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  • enterprise with potential positive contributions to the conservation of endangered biological resources.
  • raising appreciation for biological resources
  • Ecotourism enterprises tour agencies and guide services, lodges and private reserves as well as such satellite activities as crafts industries and transportation and food services, also generate revenues and foreign exchange
  • Governments
  • income in operating and protecting natural habitats.
  • raising local awareness about the value of biological resources, increasing local participation in the benefits of biodiversity conservation
  • better conservation practices by developing country populations
  • Ness T on 05 Jun 12
     
    This source tells the different benefits of Eco-Tourism and also included is a little bit of history and also some facts, examples.
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http://www.ifad.org/pub/factsheet/ip/e.pdf - 0 views

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      shubha ghogar on 05 Jun 12
       
      There were more than 370 million  indigenous people in 70 countries and before they use to be more. Indigenous people play a crucial role managing natural resources.
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Indigenous Quotes - BrainyQuote - 0 views

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      shubha ghogar on 05 Jun 12
       
      This is a really good quote, it saying that, there are not quick fixes when indigenous people are heading to poverty and it going to become a social disaster.
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Rainforest Concern - Why are rainforests important? - 0 views

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  • They provide a habitat for plants and animals Tropical rainforests took between 60 and 100 million years to evolve and are believed to be the oldest and most complex land-based ecosystem on earth, containing over 30 million species of plants and animals. That's half of the Earth's wildlife and at least two-thirds of its plant species!
  • contain 1000 trees with up to 300 species.
  • There are many more thousands of rainforest plants and animals species still waiting to be discovered.
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  • Without rainforests continually recycling huge quantities of water, feeding the rivers, lakes and irrigation systems, droughts would become more common, potentially leading to widespread famine and disease.
  • Did you know that we also depend on trees to cleanse our atmosphere? They absorb the carbon dioxide that we exhale, and provide the oxygen we need to breathe. When rainforest trees are burnt they release carbon dioxide, which pollutes the atmosphere and contributes to global warming. Deforestation is in fact considered the second major driver of climate change (more than the entire global transport sector), responsible for 18-25% of global annual carbon dioxide emissions.
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