The Amazon Rainforest

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TheAmazon Rainforest
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Before...
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...and After
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Statistics

• Rainforests consist of 2 of our planet, but they
  contain almost 50 of all the different life
  forms on the planet
• It is a source of medicine, food, and shelter and
  of course money

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How fast do they go?

• Rainforests worldwide are destroyed at a rate
  of...
• 128 sq. miles a day
• 30 million acres a year
• thats like getting rid of The Czech Republic

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Brazil

• In Brazil alone 7.4 million acres are destroyed a
  year
• What affect does this have on the people of the
  Amazon region?
• What affect does this have on the world as a
  whole?

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What are we losing?

• Foods
• Medicines potential cures?
• Climate control
• Biological diversity
• A place for rainforest human residents to live

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WHY???

• Knowing all of the benefits of a rainforest, why
  would people cut them down???