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Brazil: Rainforest Under Seige - 0 views

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brazil rainforest

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4 million SqKm,
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home to hundreds of thousands of animal and plant species
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3.5% of the overall Earth's surface
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50% of the world's living species
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2 to 30 million species
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120 species of trees
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250,000 indigenous people
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home to some
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In the last decade as much as 12% of the original forest cover of the Amazon has been destroyed.
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Andrea Nieto on 23 Oct 09

how many species of animals, plants and trees there are in the rainforest.

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Rainforest Facts - 2 views

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shared by mario gordillo on 16 Oct 09 - Cached

- marisa bauer on 16 Oct 09
  
  this is a very interesting fact website.
  
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once covered 14%
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now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.
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one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second
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Nearly half of
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50,000 species a year.
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37 plant,
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losing 137 plant,
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animal and insect species
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plants, animals and microorganisms will be destroyed
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- Ye Eun Kim on 23 Oct 09
  
  Intresting facts about rainforests in brazil
  
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- sigi ochoa on 23 Oct 09
  
  this page will give you present facts and predictions made by some scientists.
  
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One hectare (2.47 acres) may contain over 750 types of trees and 1500 species of higher plants.
- mario gordillo on 30 Oct 09
  
  one hectare of Amazon,s (2.47 acres)may contain over 750 types of trees and 1500 species of higher plants
  
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marisa bauer on 16 Oct 09

this is a website wich give lots of bulletpoints and facts, if you need good information read it.

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Andrew Kelly on 16 Oct 09

A very interesting web site about the uses of the rainforest.

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Liliana Villalobos on 23 Oct 09

The environmental group Greenpeace said it was the first time Brazil had accepted a link between global warming and preserving the rainforest.

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Ye Eun Kim on 23 Oct 09

Rainforest Facts-Very interesting!

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Liliana Villalobos on 23 Oct 09

Experts estimates that we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species every single day due to rainforest deforestation.

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sigi ochoa on 23 Oct 09

this page has excellent facts

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Liliana Villalobos on 23 Oct 09

Experts also estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.

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Liliana Villalobos on 23 Oct 09

The real solution to saving the rainforest is to make its inhabitants see the forest and the trees by creating a consumer demand and consumer markets for these sustainable rainforest products . . .

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Rainforest of Brazil- Species - 0 views

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shared by Liliana Villalobos on 16 Oct 09 - Cached

Liliana Villalobos on 16 Oct 09

More than 33% of all species in the world live in the Brazil Rainforest.

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Andrew Kelly on 16 Oct 09

of all species of what?

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Rainforests of Brazil-An Environmental Status Report - 1 views

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shared by Fei Zhang on 16 Oct 09 - Cached

Brazil holds about one-third of the world's remaining rainforests
- Andrew Kelly on 16 Oct 09
  
  Brazil holds about 1/3 of the world's rainforests
  
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- carlos ortiz on 16 Oct 09
  
  Brazil rain forest has the longitude of a total surface area of 4,005,082
  
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- Fei Zhang on 16 Oct 09
  
  They had cut down about 34660square kilometers of the Amazon Rainforest in 5 years of time
  
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56,000 described species of plants, 1,700 species of birds, 695 amphibians, 578 mammals, and 651 reptiles.
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- Andrew Kelly on 16 Oct 09
  
  Brazil's rainforests have more then 56,000 plants, 1,700 birds, 695 amphibians, 578 mammals, and 651 reptiles
  
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- Liliana Villalobos on 16 Oct 09
  
  It seems that many animals live there! Huge amount of birds!
  
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Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
- Andrew Kelly on 16 Oct 09
  
  Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
  
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- marisa bauer on 16 Oct 09
  
  about by 2050 the rainforest will be completely lost.
  
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Geovanna Rivera on 16 Oct 09

Brazil holds about one-third of the world's remaining rainforests, including a majority of the Amazon rainfores

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Rainforest facts - Amazon Village Jungle Lodge - 0 views

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Amazon rainforest forest animals ABC specoes

shared by Fei Zhang on 23 Oct 09 - Cached

The Amazon is simply the world's greatest bio-system
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It is one of the longest rivers in the world
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6,259km/3,903mi and 6,712km/4,195mi long
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2,500 tree species and 30,000 plant species
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Where are the Rainforests? - 0 views

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shared by mario gordillo on 16 Oct 09 - Cached

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  did you know that 1/5 of all the world plants and 1/10 of all mamal species are found there In the Amazon
  
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Brazil Rainforest - 0 views

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shared by mario gordillo on 16 Oct 09 - Cached

The Brazil rainforest represents over half of the worlds remaining rainforests.
- Jennifer Garcia on 19 Oct 09
  
  What will happen when this is gone?
  
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The area better known as Amazonia covers an area of seven million square kilometers, with 5.5 million square kilometers under forest cover.
- mario gordillo on 23 Oct 09
  
  the area is better known as Amazonia and covers 7000,000 square kilometrers.
  
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Liliana Villalobos on 16 Oct 09

The Brazil Rainforest is a part of the Amazon rain forest

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fernando palma on 16 Oct 09

the Brazil rainforest represents over a half of the wolrd remaining rainforest

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Rene Quiteno on 23 Oct 09

"Amazon Rainforest is a habitat to about 2.5 million insect species, tens of thousands of plants, and almost 2000 birds and mammals."

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