... in flames. It is very devastating to hear of the destruction the rainforests face every day and over the years. In 1974, Brazil started a forest fire of 20.6 million square feet (3,900 square miles). The fire ragged out of control and was later marked the largest forest fire in Brazilian history. This 1974 fire is now considered small to others in the recent ... homes. In the last twenty years, four major damns have been built in Latin and South America. The most recent, The Tucurui Dam, is twelve miles long and when filled, the reservoir will destroy 800 square miles of virgin forest a...

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... , today's trees cover merely one third of our earth. Today the picture is strikingly different. According to Roger Stone, reporter of USA Today, "Planet Earth once contained approximately 6,750,000 square miles of closed canopy rain forest" (74). Unfortunately, each year another two percent of this priceless treasure is lost. At these present rates of destruction, there will be only few small ... ice caps to melt and flood coastlines. A temperature increase could also turn productive farmland into desert. The second major problem is timber cutting, or logging. An estimated twenty-five th...

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... , today's trees cover merely one third of our earth. Today the picture is strikingly different. According to Roger Stone, reporter of USA Today, "Planet Earth once contained approximately 6,750,000 square miles of closed canopy rain forest" (74). Unfortunately, each year another two percent of this priceless treasure is lost. At these present rates of destruction, there will be only few small ... ice caps to melt and flood coastlines. A temperature increase could also turn productive farmland into desert. The second major problem is timber cutting, or logging. An estimated twenty-five th...

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... , today's trees cover merely one third of our earth. Today the picture is strikingly different. According to Roger Stone, reporter of USA Today, "Planet Earth once contained approximately 6,750,000 square miles of closed canopy rain forest" (74). Unfortunately, each year another two percent of this priceless treasure is lost. At these present rates of destruction, there will be only few small ... ice caps to melt and flood coastlines. A temperature increase could also turn productive farmland into desert. The second major problem is timber cutting, or logging. An estimated twenty-five th...

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... states, "Rainforests are the finest celebration of nature ever known on the planet" (Miller). Of these ecosystems, the Amazon is the world's largest tropical rain forest. It covers approximately 2 million square miles in the Amazon River Basin of South America. The country of Brazil is home to nearly two-thirds of this tropical forest while the remainder occupies Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia ... , monkeys, parrots, sloths, and wild species of cat (Amazon 403). A 2.5-acre area may contain as many as 280 or more species of trees and hundreds more plant species making every square inch ...

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... compounds that have proven to be very important in medical studies. Although In 1980, the estimated amount of rain forests in the world was 40,000 square miles. This number decreases each year by roughly 1,000 square miles due to construction and the resources being used for profit. Commercial logging is the leading factor in rainforest destruction, both through extraction & road building. Today rainforests ... ...

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... effect." Having started this effect by the huge factories and such in our nation, the destruction of the rain forest is just adding to the problem. In 1995 when 2 million square miles of rainforest were cut down, the covered enough distance to travel from the rocky mountains to Rhode Island. This research seems to indicate that if more and more rainforest s cut ... that is helping the rain forest without even knowing it is the Kuna Indians. They are a group of Indians that live in the forest. They inhabit a expanse of 1240 sq. miles and they protect it. They way they do this is my relig...

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... 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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... of plenty, but were being restricted by governmental actions and policies. It is estimated that in 1916, the local populations set 64 percent of the 441 fires, which burnt 388 square miles of chir forests, intentionally. (Guhu, p.107) These actions infuriated the government, and in retaliation, the Forest Department was given control over the local panchayats and the villagers were placed under ... the same time, the Symonds Co., a sporting goods manufacturer, was allotted by the forestry department a large tract of the ash trees in the Mandal forest, which was located only a few miles ...

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... South America, a vast, forested area of the Amazon River basin in Brazil and neighboring countries is by far the largest rain forest in the world. It encompasses more than 1.4 million square miles, which is about half of the total global rain forest cover. Despite their uniqueness and extraordinary value, tropical rain forests are being destroyed and badly degraded at an unsustainable rate ... ...

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... Acre's native tribes people. The Antimari Forest supports many communities of indigenous people whose livelihood depends on the sustainability of the forest. A vast expanse of green that stretches over 2 million square miles, the Amazon River Basin supplies 20 percent of the Earth's freshwater. Covering an area nearly the size of Europe, it is the world's largest river basin. The Amazon is also ... ...

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... . The African continent is home to a variety of ecosystems, from hot deserts, to tropical rain forests. Approximately half of Africa is covered by savannas of some sort (about five million square miles), beginning just below the tropic of Cancer and continuing down to the tropic of Capricorn. The circulation of the atmosphere over Africa is dominated by areas of high pressure centered ... ...

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... logging activities. As consumption of wood, paper and other forest products increases so does the rate of deforestation. Eleven million acres a year are cut for commercial paper. AMcDonald=s J needs 800 square miles of trees to make the amount of paper they need for a year=s supply of packaging@ The privatization of wood harvesting companies makes it difficult for timber harvesting to be regulated ... ...

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