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Asian Rainforest

            Deforestation, is a major problem facing Asia where most of this precious resources and has the highest destruction rate of the entire world. Among the worst exploited in Asia, are Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi and Irian Jaya.
             Nowadays More than half of Asia's remaining rainforest is under high threat.
             What's the Problem?.
             According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), deforestation is one of the most serious environmental problems facing Asia.
             With some 88% of its rainforest already gone. Asia is loosing forest area more rapidly than any other regin. Between 1981 and 1990, Asia experienced and annual deforestation rate of nearly ten million acres or approximately 1.3 percent of the reign's total forest. The estimate rate for 1990-1995 is lower at 1.1 percent.
             The rate of deforestation is highest in nearly five million acres a year in Asia.
             Why is there a Problem?.
             Logging has devastated many Asia's rainforest and is the primary cause of rainforest destruction. Other causes include clearing for agriculture, fuelwood harvesting, mining, irrigation, and hydroelectric projects, and urban expansion.
             Illegal logging is also a major reason to deforestation, they cut down native rainforest trees outside protected are.
             What does this Problem cause?.
             Deforestation causes a range of problems a major one being the addition to the greenhouse gas emitions.
             Residential minority groups, who live in rainforest reigns, are getting evicted for their native homeland by logging companies. This is just for money evicting native cultures from the native area to create profit.
             Asian rain forest is possibly the only viable population of the Bengal tiger. The fish and forest products provide a living for up to 300 000 local families, destruction of the rainforest causes these families to struggle to survive because the resources they use to live are being destroyed.
             The rainforest supplies a Habitat for several important wildlife species which can't be recreated.


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1. Info For the Rainforest

... the forest for their food and homes. Destroying the rainforest destroys their homes and their food supply. Rainforest destruction has already led to many species becoming extinct. An estimated 50 species of plants and animals become extinct each day. Animals that are threatened by forest destruction include: Western lowland gorilla Sumatran tiger Hyacinth macaw Asian elephant "Tropical forests yield some of the world ... , fish) come from rainforests." People live in tropical rainforests, often in groups called tribes. There are many different tribes that live in the rainforests of the w...

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2. Plants of The Rainforest

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3. Plant Report

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4. Religion effects on the environment

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5. Biomes Of The World

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6. Sustainable Conflict Palm Oil Production

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7. The Empire Hotel Brunei

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8. Ebola Virus

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9. Thailand and Japan

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