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nathalya castro

Amazon Rainforest - 0 views

  • he Amazon rainforest was short-listed in 2008 as a candidate to one of the New7Wonders of Nature
    • Clarissa Garcia
       
      this is about deforestation!!
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    Young Ik Kim
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    February 2009 the Amazon was ranking first in Group E, the category for forests, national parks and nature reserves...
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    The Amazon rainforest (Brazilian Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Spanish: Selva Amazónica or Amazonia), also known as Amazonia, or the Amazon jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest that covers most of the Amazon Basin of South America. This basin encompasses seven million square kilometers (1.7 billion acres), of which five and a half million square kilometers (1.4 billion acres) are covered by the rainforest. This region includes territory belonging to nine nations. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the rainforest, followed by Peru with 13%, and with minor amounts in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
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    Wow!!
brandon hall

Stop the Brazilian Congress's Assault on the Amazon Rainforest | Care2 Share - 0 views

  • The Brazilian Congress, influenced by the agribusiness sector, seeks to change the Forest Code in Brazil to open more of the Amazon rainforest to be cleared. Not only will this destroy forested areas in the Amazon no longer protected by the Forest Code, but the clearing and burning of these lands will release millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere—making the impacts of climate change much worse.
eduardo lemus

Deforestation in the Amazon - 2 views

    • Denisse Rivera
       
      VERY IMPORTANT!!!
    • jaime batlle
       
      yes
  • Between May 2000 and August 2006, Brazil lost nearly 150,000 square kilometers of forest—an area larger than Greece—and since 1970, over 600,000 square kilometers (232,000 square miles) of Amazon rainforest have been destroyed. Why is Brazil losing so much forest? What can be done to slow deforestation?
  • n many tropical countries, the majority of deforestation results from the actions of poor subsistence cultivators. However, in Brazil only about one-third of recent deforestation can be linked to "shifted" cultivators
    • eduardo lemus
       
      Very good site for deforestation
brandon hall

Brazil - Protecting the Amazon Rain Forest - ARPA Project - 0 views

  • The vision of the Amazon Region Protected Areas Project (ARPA) is to create a mosaic of protected areas around productive landscapes to maintain the ecological integrity of the region over the long term. The project aims to add  28 million hectares in new protected areas (PAs) in the Brazilian Amazon over the next 10 years, while helping to consolidate the existing protected areas system. This will result in a total of 50 million hectares of Amazon forested ecosystems under protection and sustainable use, an area the size of Spain.
mario munoz

Rainforests of Brazil-An Environmental Status Report - 0 views

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    BRazil's Amazon rainforest is in danger!!!!!!
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    this is a good age of the amazon rainforest
efr wqrrf

Brazil - Brazzil Mag - Brazilian Amazon Communities Make Money Saving the Rainforest - 0 views

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  • is re-establishing ecological balance in the forest by means of organic farming and sales of non-wood forestry products.
  • "We have been exporting sugarcane molasses to Austria since 2006, and brown sugar since last year. This year, we should start selling brown sugar to Italy,
  • the first international contacts were made when the cooperative participated in the trade fair BioFach Latin America, held in 2004 in Rio de Janeiro (Southeast Brazi
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  • "The fair gave us a notion of the size of the global organic market, and provided a basis for comparing packing and product quality.
  • Species such as the Brazil nut, guarana and buriti are native of the Amazon Portal
  • In addition to products to be supplied to large urban centers, BioAgrepa manufactures organic foodstuffs for the rural communities themselves. Dairy products, chicken, cassava, vegetables, sweets, and fruit are supplied to small supermarkets and for school meals, benefiting 25,000 students in the public teaching system and nurseries in nine municipalities in the north of the state of Mato Grosso, in the Midwest.
  • And tens of thousands more are making very little money,when paid, to make charcoal and work as slaves !!!!!!!! Showing a little piece of the reality...IS NOT THE REALITY !!!! Showing the tip of the iceberg is what brazilians are good at. Hiding the 90 % of the iceberg is where brazilians medias, politicians are working hard for but....VERY BAD AT.
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    Interesting
eduardo lemus

Effects of Deforestation, Deforestation Effects - 0 views

  • Forests contain many valuable natural resources and the land they cover is also valuable to an ever-increasing human population.
  • Millions of species have been wiped out never to be seen again in fact most were never seen by human eyes before being driven to extinction.
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    Eduardo Lemus
mario munoz

http://www.brazilianrainforest.org - 0 views

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    this is also another good one
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    OK!!
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    APM!!!
rodrigo gonzalez

Help the Amazon rainforest - 0 views

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    "Help the Amazon Rainforest There are several ways to help Amazon rainforest; the first is spreading the word to people that you know. The second is to protect an acre of the rainforest. For a small donation you can protect an acre of the rainforest. Simply click the link below. "
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    I agree!
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