... rain forests are found are: South and Central America, Africa and Madagascar, South and Southeast Asia New Guinea, and Australia. Each of these forest areas is separated by thousands of miles and is specific and unique. Years ago, the Earth had a green belt of rain forests around its middle that covered almost twelve percent of the earth's land surface. Today, with ... , rainforests are home to about half the worlds five to ten million plant and animal species. Rainforests also support 90,000 of the 250,000 identified plant species. Within four square miles of rainforest you can find at ...

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... was estimated at one point in the 1980's that the Amazon basin was being cleared at the rate of 50 acres a minute; another estimate put the rate at 78,000 square miles per year" (53). These are astronomical numbers, to think that is the size of the state Idaho. Such deforestation has an alarming affect, "it means the loss of a multiplicity of ... ...

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... a huge, barren tract of land. 2) Intensive or modern agriculture usage that occurs on a much larger scale - growing of cash crops, cattle ranching does a bigger damage as forests are stripped several square miles at a time that. Large areas of rainforests became cattle pastures for ranchers to grow beef for the world market. In South America countries, cattle ranching for beef export to northern ... ...

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