Transcript Jana Janakieva - uni

Rain Forest
Jana Janakieva
DISAPPERING
• We are losing 137 plant and animal
species every single day
• 78 million acres lost every year
• Massive deforestation brings with it many
consequences
People living in the Rain Forests
• What Is Happening To The Forest
People?
Deforestation for agriculture and ranching, mining, and
road building all pose major threats to this region. Other
threats include introduced species, small-scale logging,
wildlife exploitation, and hydroelectric projects. Increased
colonization of the area will be of great concern in the near
future and will bring more hunting pressure. Uncontrolled
tourism is a subject of current debate, though the long-term
effects are not yet known.
Forest Fires
Farming
Paper
Road building
Some facts
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Rainforests currently provide
sources for one-fourth of
today's medicines
70 percent of the plants found
to have anticancer properties
are found only in the rainforest
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Eight out of ten children are
now saved, rather than eight of
ten children dying from
leukemia.
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Experts now believe that if
there is a cure for cancer and
even AIDS, it will probably be
found in the rainforest.
Can the Rainforest be saved
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How Much Rainforest Remains?
Why Won't The Rainforest Grow Back?
The Solution to Rainforest Destruction
Raintree - A Leader in Implementing the
Solution
Organizations
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Amazon Watch
Works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Rainforest Basin to defend the
environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights.
www.amazonwatch.org
Amazon Conservation Team (ACT)
Conservation, education, and research in the Amazon basin.
www.ethnobotany.org
Pachamama Alliance
Organization to halt the destruction of rainforests and the loss of its indigenous culture and to blend the knowledge
and wisdom from indigenous cultures and the modern world.
www.pachamama.org
Tree 4 Life
Plant a tree in the Brazilian rainforest.
www.tree4life.com
Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation (ACEER)
Promoting conservation of the Peruvian Amazon through educational programs, research, land acquisition, and
ecology workshops.
www.aceer.org
BuyTheRainforest.Net
Working to buy the land which encompasses the cloud and rain forests in the Amazon region of Peru, and
establishing it as an eternal preserve for medical research.
www.buytherainforest.net
Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA)
Creating a tropical rainforest protected area system with project activity spread out over an area larger than
Western Europe.
worldwildlife.org/forests/projects/arpa.cfm