Deforestation

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Deforestation

• By Gerald Weimer, Michael Olvera, Je Yeun Min,
  and Latavia Allen

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Deforestation

• clear (an area) of forests or trees.

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UGANDA

• -3.9 of total forest ANNUALY with only 12.4 of
  the Rainforest LEFT

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Brazil
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Borneo Timeline
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The World
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CAUSES OF DEFORESTATION

• Agriculture and Cattle-Raising
• Dams
• Buildings/ Mega projects
• Mining Oil and Gas

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CATTLE
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Why Cattle?

• Food companies such as McDonald's uses forests
  to find more space to raise cattle and crops. The
  more land they clear, the more profit.

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• Costa Rica, which is one of the countries with
  the worse deforestation rate in the world, is
  home to millions of cattle

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• Cattle pasture land in Honduras takes up over 40
  percent of the country's fertile land.

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Dams
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• Dams are built to change water flows. Forests are
  cleared to make man made irrigation leading
  towards more inhabited regions.

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Building and Construction
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Forest are not only being cut for building
material, but for extra space as well.
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Oil Mining
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• In places such as Canada and Middle America
  (Costa Rico, Venezuela, Panama) forest are
  cleared in spots that are suspected of holding
  oil underground.

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EFFECTS
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Temperature Increase
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Animal Extinction
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Other Effects

• Drain on national resources
• Landslides and floods
• Unworkable Soil

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What Can We Do?
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Tips

• - Reforestation
• - Rotate Crops
• - Support Farmers From States
• - Recycle Paper

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• Organizations such as these focus on preserving
  forest habitats.
• Community Forestry International
• The Nature Conservancy
• World Wide Fund for Nature
• Conservation International
• African Conservation Foundation
• Greenpeace

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MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!
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