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Mind Map by Caitlin Davies, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Caitlin Davies
over 9 years ago
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The amazon rainforest
- about
- covers an area of 8
billion km2- it is the
largest rainforest in
the world
- since the 1970s 600,000km2
has been destroyed due to
deforestation
- logging, cattle ranching , mining
- logging, cattle ranching , mining
- since the 1970s 600,000km2
has been destroyed due to
deforestation
- South America- covers parts of
Brazil, columbia, bolivia
- covers an area of 8
billion km2- it is the
largest rainforest in
the world
- Negative impacts
- environmental
- habitat destructioin and loss
of biodiversity-number of
endagered species in brazil has
risen by 410 in about 20 years
- The Amazon stores around 100 billion
tonnes of carbon - deforestation will
release this as co2 and it willl contribute
to global warming
- habitat destructioin and loss
of biodiversity-number of
endagered species in brazil has
risen by 410 in about 20 years
- social impacts
- local ways of life have been effected-Brazilian rubber
tappers have lost their livlihoods ass rubber trees
have been cut down
- native tribes have been forced to move off
their land
- There hass been conflict between large
landowners and local farmers and native
people- in 2009 there were riots in peru
over rainforest destruction
- local ways of life have been effected-Brazilian rubber
tappers have lost their livlihoods ass rubber trees
have been cut down
- economical
- Farming makes alot of money for countries in the
rainforest- in 2008 brazil made $7 billion from trading
cattle
- The mining industry creates alot of jobs for
people
- Farming makes alot of money for countries in the
rainforest- in 2008 brazil made $7 billion from trading
cattle
- environmental
- sustainable managment strategies
- some defested areas are being replantesd with trees- Peru
plans to replant 100,000 km2 of forest before 2018
- some countries are ttrying to reduce the amount of
hardwood trees felled- Brazil banned mahogony logging in
2001
- ecotourism is becoming popular - pperu
has around 70 lodges which atrracted
600,000 in 2007
- environmental laws- the brazilian forest code says
that landowners have to keep 50-80% of their land as
forest
- national parks- The central amazon conservation
complex in brazil is the largest protected area of the
rainforest
- reducing debt- in 2008 USA reduced Perus
debt by $25million in axchange for
conservation of the rainforest
- some defested areas are being replantesd with trees- Peru
plans to replant 100,000 km2 of forest before 2018
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