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jaime batlle

Amazon Rainforest deforestation - 1 views

  • During heavy rains the excess pesticide runs off the land and flows into the rivers.  Time will tell what effect these toxic chemicals will have on the wildlife of the river
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      we must stop this
Clarissa Garcia

amazon rainforest FACTS! - 0 views

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    here a big amount of information! :D
Mariana Flores

Rainforest Cafe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

    • Mariana Flores
       
      Rainforest cafe
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    WOOOohooooOo!!!
florence hirlemann

Rainforest: About: Amazon Quick Facts - 0 views

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    Important facts about the amazon rainforest.
brandon hall

2.Manaus and Amazon Rainforest, Brazil - 0 views

  • Manaus, Brazil, emerged as an important port city in the nineteenth century during the rubber boom. Today, with more than 1.7 million inhabitants, it is the largest city in the Amazon Basin. It is located on the banks of the Rio Negro (darker, to the left) at that river's confluence with the Amazon River (lighter, to the right). Although it is 1450 kilometers upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, Manaus remains an important port city for oceangoing vessels. It currently exports rubber, Brazil nuts, lumber, and various fruits. Recent discoveries of oil and manganese (used in steel production) may further invigorate its economy. Surrounding this city for hundreds of kilometers in all directions is dense rainforest. Because there are no bridges spanning the rivers in the vicinity of Manaus, ships are used to transport goods across these rivers.
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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    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

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.
brandon hall

Brazil Wants $21 Billion to Protect the Amazon Rainforest with No Strings Attached : Ec... - 0 views

  • It is hoped that the fund will raise up to 21 billion dollars over the next 13 years from nations around the world. Norway has already chipped in, pledging 100 million dollars to kick things off. Brazil has made it clear though that donations are only being accepted with a condition of no strings being attached. In other words, countries that donate money will have no say over how the money is used.
jaime batlle

AMAZON RAINFOREST FACTS - 0 views

  • 70% of plants found to have anticancer properites are found only in the rainforest
    • jaime batlle
       
      the cure for cancer is here!!!
    • yoki kim
       
      really??? Interesting.
  • More than 20% of Earth's oxygen is produced in this area, thus the name "Lungs of the Planet"
  • represents 54% of the total rainforests left on Earth.
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!
rodrigo gonzalez

Unique places of interest in the amazon rainforest - 0 views

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    "Amazon Rainforest Unique places of interest There are several places to go in the Amazon rainforest; it would probably be difficult to know all of them. A good start is visiting the Brazilian national parks in the region, most of them don't have much infrastructure for tourists but this is quickly being developed and you should find very good conditions by the end of 2005."
Mariana Flores

Rainforest Climate - 0 views

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      rainforest climate
yoki kim

Rainforest Facts - 0 views

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    Interesting facts of the Amazon ranforest
Clarissa Garcia

AMAZON RAINFOREST DEFORESTATION - 0 views

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      wow..O_O its amazing the cuantities of trees vanishing!!!
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
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