Amazon Rainforest Research Paper

Decent Essays
Deforestation Newspaper Editorial
Mr Todd,
I thought that the United States loved their trees but it turns out that they don’t. I hope that everyone know that trees have a great impact on the world. They produce vital oxygen and provide homes for people and wildlife animals. Plus many of the world’s most threatened and endangered animals live in forests and 1.6 billion people rely on benefits forests like food, fresh water, clothing and shelter. Also if we don’t have any trees left then we will be in bad situations, so there would be know oxygen and mostly every air breathing living thing would eventually die.
There are also environmental groups that have concern about deforestation. Like the Amazon watch, who helps to protect the rainforest. There’s one called the Canadian Forestry association, who also supports all the matters related to the conservation of forests. Then there is one called conservation international which uses science, policy, and fieldwork to tackle and stop deforestation. Also all these groups are trying to help stop deforestation by giving their hearts and soul to helping the forest situation in supporting
…show more content…
Timber Regulation, which prohibits the placing of illegally harvested timber and products derived from illegally harvested timber. It requires traders who deal in timber products after the first placing to keep records enabling basic traceability of supply chains. The regulation covers a wide range of timber and wood products, which are excluded from being used. Also there is a National Forest Management Act of 1976, which recognizes that the management of the Nation’s renewable resources is highly complex and the uses are subject to change over time. Now since the government knows about this they support these act. Plus there is great support being with organizations and the congress which wants to help with these forest issue and they are also getting good benefits from

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    If the name Headwaters Forest Preserve does not ring a bell, you might recall Julia Butterfly Hill, who spent 738 days between 12/10/1997 and 12/18/1999 in the tree affectionately known as "Luna," to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down. Pacific Lumber had been bought by Maxxam Corp., and they were clear cutting everything in sight to pay off the bonds they sold to buy this forest. Pacific Lumber, which had been doing sustainable logging for generations, suddenly became an environmental villain due to the hostile takeover. Senator Dianne Feinstein helped put together $380 million in state and federal money to purchase Headwaters, a pristine old growth redwood forest, within the Pacific Lumber lands, east of Eureka.…

    • 1176 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The article, American Forest Policy-Global Ethical Tradeoffs, addresses the issue of global increases in timber demand, especially within the United States, coupled with the decrease in timber production and forest cultivation within the U.S., and the potential solutions that may remedy the growing timber dilemma. The authors propose several solutions and discuss their potential benefits and costs, but overall, voice their preference of establishing forest plantations and practicing intensive forest management. The article is written is a very straightforward, factual way that is aimed at the general public, in an attempt to have them understand the unintentional hypocrisies of their actions of advocating reduced logging while still importing…

    • 1465 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Amazon Rainforest is known to the largest River on the planet Earth. The Amazon Rainforest covers 40% of the South American continent and swivels its way through 8 countries; Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname. The Amazon Rainforests consists of many different ecosystems and different vegetation types which include, rainforests, seasonal rainforests, deciduous rainforests, flooded forests and savannahs. The Amazon Rainforests also consists of the second biggest river (The Amazon River) following after the Nile River in North Africa. The river plays a massive part for the reproduction of the Rainforest and has done this for many years.…

    • 102 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Deforestation is the permanent destruction of forests in order to make the land available for other uses. Can you imagine thirty-six football fields being wiped out per minute? This is happening to our forests, between twelve to fifteen million hectares of forest are lost each year. The DRC Congo and Australia have both undergone Deforestation which has led to loss in biodiversity, releases carbon gases into the atmosphere and many more devastating effects. Around half the world’s tropical rainforests have been cleared and both the DRC Congo and Australia are a part of that along with lots of others.…

    • 1349 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Tropical deforestation is an issue that has plagued mankind since the beginning of time. It is an important component of global change and has a large influence on many different environmental issues we have today such as climate change and carbon emissions. Over a twelve year period that ended in 2012, 1.1 million km2 of tropical forest was lost, with the rate of forest loss increasing during this span. One of the largest and most biodiverse tropical forests’ in the world is the Amazon, covering an area of 5.5 million square kilometers and shared by nine countries. Brazil holds the majority of it, over 60%.…

    • 2010 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the novel “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert, humans are destroying the world by burning fossil fuels, polluting oceans, rivers, lakes, and the air but, is it really the individuals human 's fault or is it corporations caring too much of profit that they will do anything to make an extra pennie? How many times have you heard about oil spills? Personally I have lost count of the ever increasing number of oil spills.…

    • 1055 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Amazon Rainforest, is located throughout ten different countries in South America, they include Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Giuana. This forest has many types of animal spices and plant species, which some of these species are endangered. In order to protect the rainforest, there are a wide number of management strategies that take place. These strategies are put into place so that the rainforest can be sustainably developed. The ecological, economic and spiritual functions of the Amazon Rainforest are linked, to the importance of the management strategies.…

    • 1090 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In fact, by the time this presentation is over 200 football fields worth of trees would be torn down. Deforestation is the permanent destruction of the forest in order to make the land available for other uses. Roughly…

    • 1065 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    We simply don’t harm the forest like others coming to deplete our natural…

    • 950 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Have you ever realized how important the Amazon Rainforest is to the earth? Well, if you haven’t this essay will show you why and how the Amazon Rainforest is important to the world. There is an exceedingly crazy amount of research that shows the importance of the Rainforest. If we do not protect the rainforest, then our planet will be permanently damaged. It is very hard to believe that there are people damaging the rainforest even though it did nothing, but helped them.…

    • 662 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Not only would deforestation lead to the destruction of the natural beauty of America but would also result in a loss of habitat for thousands of animals native to those environments. This could lead to the endangerment of those species and even their eventual extinction. It truly saddens me that these trees are cut down “as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their barks,” at the expense of future generations and the Animals who used to live in these areas (Muir 1). These trees have survived “drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods,” and yet a few greedy humans can just come and destroy forests which it took “more than three thousand year to make” in one foul swoop (Muir 1). Therefore, I propose that you give $300,000 to the Sierra Club to fight deforestation and to preserve our great…

    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Six billion trees are cut down every single year and used for lumber and more commonly paper. One tree produces an average of eight thousand three hundred thirty-three pieces of paper that is that means 49,998,000,000,000 pieces of paper are used each year. When all of these trees are being cut down with machines that create carbon dioxide we are also getting rid of the main things the give us the oxygen that we need to survive. A fantastic way that the United States can cut down on a number of greenhouse gasses in the air is by stopping deforestation. Hundreds of animals lose their habitats each year due to deforestation.…

    • 207 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I have always been interested in climate change, in the same line as global warming. I would like to learn more about how the communities and big businesses is causing damage to the climate. I remember one of my friends told me that if you leave your water running outside in your lawn you will be fined, which came as a shock to me. I never thought of getting a fine for watering your own lawn. In our society today, human emission caused more pollution than ever; there must be a solution that we can work together to improve our health and cleaner air.…

    • 1666 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    This issue often goes unnoticed because humans are so caught up in their everyday lives. Many people support only what is best for humans in their lifetime and don’t look at the bigger picture. People fail to consider how their actions affect not only plants and animals in their ecosystem, but future generations as well. Throughout the years we have harmed and destroyed forest ecosystems and everything that lives in them, so it is only fair that we do everything we can to help limit the amount of damage we deal to our forests and wildlife. Deforestation has been around since…

    • 1292 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Humans are incapable of living without oxygen, so why does it seem logical to cut down our main source of life? Not only are we reducing the oxygen entering the air while cutting down trees, many other negative effects occur worldwide. Deforestation is a permanent destruction of forests to make room for other uses. With it comes many negative effects that hurt not only us but the animal population and the atmosphere. It has been estimated that about half of the world’s forests have been cleared, and about 36 football fields worth of trees are lost every minute.…

    • 1684 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays