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The sad thing is that this is cone to cut livestock prices. Such restaurants as Burger king use rain forest beef since it is so cheap. Burger King is the better known of all rain forest beef users but not the only one. Most fast food chains are suspected of using rain forest beef along with some supermarkets. However since companies are not required to state where their product originates it makes it very difficult if not impossible to trace who is using what. .
             Other times theses lesser developing countries need land to support their own growing populations. These countries are unable to build sky scrappers so they spread their cities into the jungle. These homes are merely shacks not really like a home though. .
             All of these matters are from the direct concerns of money. Developing countries hope that these highways will bring in foreign businesses as well as help there own commercial businesses expand and become more efficient. These projects also help in tourism promotion. In regards to agriculture and livestock, developing countries cost less to use that modernized countries such as the United States. These countries cannot afford to build expensive housing so they build tiny shacks for their people but expand into the forest. .
             Environmentalists on the other side of the fence argue that animal diversity is being lost. Currently about one species a day is lost from the forest. This could have a drastic affect on the food web. If a certain species of animal becomes extinct then another species dependent on that animal for food will also become extinct and so on. These forest contain the most bio-diversity over any other type of biome in the world. .
             An ancient way of life will also be lost as these forest go. These forest are inhabited by the last of the hunting and gathering tribes left in the world. One example of this is the Penan. These people live on the island of Borneo in the Province of Sarawak under the Malaysian government.


Essays Related to Rainforest

1. Deforestation Of The Rainforest

... fiber, fodder, fuel, building materials, as well as medicines.(Pierce) The forest also provides habitat for wildlife, as well as for the indigenous people that call the rainforest home. The rainforest plays a role in helping the regulation of the water passing through it and so it protects its self from erosion. The great problem consequently though is nearly all ... where the prevailing ecosystem is maintained, while current human needs are met without compromising human the needs of the future. By reducing, reusing, and recycling rainforest and non-rainforest goods, less amounts of ra...

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2. The Rainforest

... of each plant and identify it by species. They plot this information on a chart as a sample of how plants grow in that area of rainforest. They can then compare and contrast samples from different patches in different rainforests. Conditions change from one layer to the next, so the species that live ... . On the forest floor, insects and other decomposers recycle the nutrients that creatures in the upper layers need to survive. The Emergent Layer The rainforest usually supports one or two giant trees per acre that towers above all the other plants. The tops of these emergents sprout abo...

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3. The Loss of the Tropical Rainforest

... subsidies and leeway to encourage both local multinational timber, mining, and oil corporations to 'colonize' the rainforests. On the other hand, many multinational corporations (MNC) convinced rainforest countries to sell logging concessions to their company, on the basis that they would that they would improve the country's economy and would adopt environmental friendly policies when working ... the economic development, modernization, and industrialization programs of the country. The government realized that many development trends in the country are unsustainable, and conservation o...

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4. Amazon Rainforest

... of the world's rainforests have been cleared from 1960 to 1990. Figure 3 illustrates the dramatic increase in Fig. 2. Percentage rate of deforestation Fig. 3. Deforestation rate for Amazon Rainforest deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest, particularly between 1992 and 1994. The clearing of these forests has been attributed to various human-driving forces. Many human driving forces have led to the clearing of ... in human consumption, "the first and most important cause" (Deforestation: Causes and Solutions) of deforestation is wood extraction. Economical factors also play a large role i...

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5. Rainforest conservation

... will be lost forever. Additionally mankind will loose many species of insects and animals as yet undiscovered by the wanton destruction of the rainforest. The forest's impact on the world's biological health is of critical importance to sustain life, as we know it. Its obliteration will ... detrimental to all that inhabit this planet. I will conclude this paper by talking about the efforts being made to curb the rate of rainforest destruction and how we, mankind, can help in preserving this most precious resource. Tropical rainforests are the Earth's oldest living ecosystems. Fossil ... ...

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6. Deforestation In Brazil's Amozon Rainforest

... of the reasons deforestation occurs are population growth and logging. These reasons benefit Brazil's economy, unfortunately they are in turn devastating the earth's environment. We must stop deforestation; the rainforest is home to millions of creatures and it acts like a filter for the entire planet. The biggest issue concerning deforestation in Brazil and the Amazon is an economic one. When ... forest to provide economic support for Brazil. However, rapid deforestation is rarely in the economic interest of the country concerned. When environmentalists show their concern over the loss...

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7. Save the Costa Rican Rainforest

... used throughout history to cure disease, ease pain, provide food, and maintain health. Many cultures depend on the rainforest for life. By destroying a significant area of the ever-shrinking rainforest to build the Goliath Coffee Company, both known and undiscovered plants that hold great potential will be destroyed forever ... understand the significance of their land, and they know that their National Park needs to be saved from companies such as this one. The rainforest has always been exploited, but has been recently destroyed at a quite a rapid rate, due to the desire for industriali...

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8. Asian Rainforest

... 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 ...

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9. Rainforest Depletion

... clues to the origins of Earth, and myriad other secrets not yet known to man. In this essay I will outline the advantages and disadvantages of rainforest deforestation. Rainforests once sprawled across the globe. At one time, rainforests covered 14% of the earth's land surfaces. They now account for only 6% of ... animal and insect species everyday, a disturbing 50,000 species a year lost to deforestation. There are 121 prescription drugs made from rainforest-derived plants. 25% of all Western medicines are rainforest-derived. Of all the plants thriving in the forests, less than 1% of th...

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10. Rainforest

... time ago, before automobiles, electricity, and the Industrial Revolution. As population increased along with technology advances, more significant and widespread problems arose. The Amazon rainforest was not spared from this growth. The Amazon region has long been seen as a land of great riches. "Early Europeans and others have long ... causing a continuing and accelerated decline in the quality of the environment and it's ability to sustain life" (98). As a result, the Amazon rainforest is being destroyed at an alarming rate, affecting all those that live in the region, and around the wo...

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